SOC150H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Current Literature, Internal Validity, Social Inequality
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Values: are a reflection of our current positions which is a reflection of our past experiences. Captures inquiry as a natural human activity. Acknowledges the utility of knowledge for getting through daily life, efficiently. Helps predict future events in our personal lives. Aims to develop methodical inquiry as an extension of natural human activity. Aims to make sense of and predict events in the social world (not just our own lives) Helps to capture fundamental qualities of social life. We do not take for granted everything that needs to be explained. Internal validity: is the approximate truth about inferences regarding cause-effect or causal relationships. Thus, internal validity is only relevant in studies that try to establish a causal relationship. It"s not relevant in most observational or descriptive studies, for instance. External validity: of applying the conclusions of a scientific study outside the context of that study.
