48-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Class, Randomness, Operationalization

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: 48-101
• Professor: Nakhaie

Document Summary

Influenced by: gender, race, social class, age, region that grew up in, nation. Treatment of research results: consent, t-room experiment (gay club, researcher saw license plates and tracked ppl, don"t play with data (selective, cross check data, divorce book fraud example, faulty legislation was passed, based on faulty info. Field research (a street corner society: participation observation) Advantage/disadvantage of qualitative and quantitative: hawthorne effect. Milgram study: have subjects shock people see how far they would go, why did they administer shocks that would make people die, people have obedience to authority, tendency to follow order from authority. Variables have 2 or more categories: men or women, protestant, catholic, orthodox etc. The process in which you assign values to the constant. Randomness: small group of people from a large group, revenue canada, ex. Snowball is when you ask one person for someone else, then ask the other person for someone else etc.