SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: General Social Survey, Socioeconomic Status, Syphilis
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Step 1: area of interest: predictors of racist attitudes (wodtke, women converting to judaism (davidman, working-class university students (granfield) What do we already know: scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly books. Step 3: create research question(s: how does intelligence affect racist attitudes? (wodtke, how do women decide to convert to orthodox judaism? (davidman, how do working-class students manage stigma at a prestigious university? (granfield) Interviewing, observation, content analysis, open-ended surveys: smaller sample sizes, researchers are research instruments". Quantitative methods: hypothesis, a tentative statement about a particular relationship that can be tested empirically, variables measure relationships. Independent variable (x): can be varied or manipulated: dependent variable (y): is the reaction (or lack thereof) to the manipulation, operational definition describes how a variable is measured. Correlation does not imply causality: correlation, measures how strongly 2 variables are related, causality, one variable causes a change in the other.
