SOCI 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ecological Fallacy, Nomothetic, Questionnaire Construction
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Are you talking about absolute poverty (cannot meet your basic needs) or the conceptualized concept of poverty in a relative context in compared to others. Specify as clearly as possible what you want to find out. (poverty homelessness): are your basic needs but not your recreational needs. Three major purposes of social research are exploration, description, and explanation. Ie: 51% of the class is male and 49% of the class if female this is what i describe as the variable. Explanation is the discovery and reporting of relationships among different aspects of the phenomenon under study. Cannot assume that the responders know synonyms and short hands. Helps researchers become familiar with specific topics; e. g. , the minimum wage and the reaction/response; free drug plan for ontarians under age 24. Satisfy curiosity and desire for better grounded theory construction. understanding; 2. Test the feasibility of undertaking a more extensive study; 3. Develop the methods to be used in subsequent studies.
