SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Inculturation
Document Summary
News media, statistics, observations, personal victimization, friends, family etc. Opposite of most media is true (most criminals are not black; crime is not always violent etc. ) Research is not just data collection - it starts with a problem, has goals and plans, is guided by hypotheses, and accepts criticism. Rules that are researcher has to follow. Methodological preference? (do you like stats, qualitative, quantitative methods?) Avoids tests, discrepancies; blind to opposing evidence. Locked into moral belief detached from moral belief. Rooted in a specific position transcends/crosses social positions. Welcomes tests, all evidence; changes based on evidence. Sample enough people to make something generalizable. Deductive approach (abstract => test the idea) Social facts have objective reality; primacy of method; variables can be identified and relationships measured; outsiders pov. Begins with hypothesis/theory; manipulation and control; uses formal instruments; deductive; reduced data to numerical indices; abstract language in write-up. Examine information or content in a written or symbolic material.
