SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nomothetic, Reflectance, Participant Observation
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Conflict inequality, power, who benefits more (family, friendship politics, Interpretive meaning, construction of meaning (what you take from things) Feminist interrogating categories (gender, class, race) Study of social regularities social research aims to find patterns of regularity in social life (challenges are different at 20s and 70s, it changes as you get older) Science is about 1) logic (theory) and 2) observation (method) Study of aggregate (what we have in common like aspects, background, religion, educations) what are the points of diiference. Language of attributes (characteristics that describe people, cases or things, i. e. man or woman) and variables (logical groupings of attributes, i. e. A idiographic because is explaining one case with great detail. B nomothetic explaining a set of cases using a handful of factors. Inductive: thinking moves from particular observations to the general. Pure: research for foremost interested in understanding (understand something, phenomenal, people"s different opinion, climate change, etc. (cid:524)
