SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Discourse Analysis, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, External Validity
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Leave it in whatever form it is, not textual, spoken, textual, images. Understood to be more creative in a sense that it is more interpretive, subjective than objective. Understand patterns, deductive: hypothesis testing and inductive: qualitative data and searching for patterns, look for patterns within it, not testing differences between variables. Analyzing child abuse in a certain neighborhood, interviewed people of incidents of child abuse, ask for the frequency of child abuse, how often it occur in the neighborhood, there is a discrepancy between what people tell and what happens. Structures: physical, mental, emotional, how it relates to one another. Processes: order, or sequence, abuses begin with mentally and then physical. Causes: more commonly associated with certain social classes, origin, religious groups. Consequences: pattern, how is child abuse affect the victim. Idiographic causal explanation: one case, small number of cases, full description of everything that happens in those cases.
