Sociology 2206A/B Lecture 2: Research Methods 2206 Lecture 2
26 Oct 2016
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Objectivity: we cannot be 00% objective towards something. Consistency: want to see patterns that occur over time. As researchers we get partial truth rather than absolute truth. Theory hypothesis observations empirical generalizations. Theories: are the ways of naming, ways of conceptually ordering our senses of the world. There are tools with which we decide what it is that we experience, why something is the way it is, and how it is that we might act or react to it (categories, naming, labeling) ->theorizing is a process of developing ideas that allow us to understand and explain empirical observations. -> a systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspects of social life. -> state a probability, chance, or tendency, not an absolute causal relationship. Causal relationship: you have a cause and an effect (example: education is independent variable + income is the dependent= there is a relationship between education and the amount of income you will receive)
