SOC200H1 Lecture Notes - Operationalization, Casual Dating, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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To control you must hold it constant if relationship goes away then you can tell it is spurious. Suppose there is found to be a correlation between a and b. Aside from coincidence, there are three possible relationships: Mechanism an account of how (or the process by which) one thing causes another, it is basically a story. To explain an event is to give an account of why it happened. Usually this takes the form of citing an earlier event as the cause of the event we want to explain . [but] to cite the cause is not enough: the causal mechanism must also be provided, or at least suggested. People with more education seen as more skilled get higher status job more pay money. Orrr people with more education more and better employment options able to negotiate better salaries. Another causal relationship working fewer hours for pay causes better grades.
