SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Seat Belt, Dependent And Independent Variables, National Longitudinal Study Of Adolescent To Adult Health
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The turbulence causes them to turn on the seat belt sign not the other way around. Most times in social science, when we"re talking about causation, we"re talking about probability. It"s the idea that most likely the effect comes after the cause. Not all the time but in probability we use terms like most likely, very often, increased prevalence, etc. Example for sub-point of point 2: you go to a friend"s house for the first time and see a playpen/box of toys. In sociology, most of the time you don"t know but you can use techniques to determine when it"s more likely that this. X (presence of toys/playpen) is more likely to cause something or be the result of something. They"re the exclaiming (explaining?) variable or the cause. The effect or the variable that"s being explained. Note: causation is not the main objective of most qualitative research. Some people might say this is a flaw, prof disagrees.
