SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Numerical Analysis, Meat Packing Industry, Participant Observation

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: silva

Document Summary

Reported number of safety violations are analyzed in relationship to number of inspections. A researcher works in a meat-packing plant and describes experiences. Strengths: inexpensive, easy to administer, fast turnaround rate, ease in acquiring. Weaknesses: low response rate, possibility of inaccurate information sensitive information: field research, experiment well. Includes participant observation, usually with informed consent! Strengths: in-depth understanding, flexible, does not disrupt the subjects. Weaknesses: sometimes expensive or danger out, little control over data. Unobtrusive observation: studying a subject without consent doesn"t go over. Ethnography cold and hungry being homeless, 5-year-old survival. Experimental group exposed to the independent variable. Weaknesses: artificial, high attrition: secondary analysis. Examines data that have been collected by someone else. Includes historical materials, personal documents, public records, and official. Weaknesses: may not have needed information statistics: evaluation research. It is impossible to be a value free" sociologist. Values are a part of who you are.