SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Equal Opportunity, Symbolic Interactionism, Subculture
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Intro to sociology: chapter 2 and chapter 3 notes. Chapter 2: sociological investigation: for(cid:373)s of (cid:862)truth(cid:863, belief or faith, expert testimony, simple agreement, science, 3 frameworks for sociological investigation, scientific sociology, systematic and empirical. Interpretive sociology: focuses on the meanings people attach to their social world, critical sociology, the study of society that focuses on the need for change, causation, cause and effect, types of variables. Inductive logic: reasoning that transforms specific observation into general theory: deductive logic: reasoning that transforms general theory into specific hypotheses suitable for testing. Questionnaire: using secondary data is considered an unobtrusive or ________ research method. Ale(cid:454)is (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts to resear(cid:272)h the (cid:1005)96(cid:1004)"s fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. she reads articles from the time period, watches documentaries, reads scholarly journals on the topic, and interviews influential women from the movement. How well the study measures what it was designed to measure. How long a study is expected to remain relevant and influential.
