SOC 101 Lecture 1: Soc 101 Class 1

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Rachel A Wildfeuer

Document Summary

For cities- central zone high rates of- poverty, metal illness, suicides, crime, pop. turnover. As people get away from the central zone of the city the statistics for these start to drop. Research methods are standard rules that social scientists follow when trying to establish a causal relationship between social elements. Quantitative methods seek to obtain information about the social world that is in, or can be converted to, numeric form. Qualitative methods attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form. Determines if a correlation exists by noticing if a change is observed in two things simultaneously. Causality is the idea that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another factor. Sometimes two variables are correlated, but the relationship is explained by a. A dependent variable is the outcome that a researcher is trying to explain.