SOCL 2001 Lecture : Lecture Note 4
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Arrest and further abuse by husband"s employment status: control theory seems to be working. Employed: arrested suspect less likely, not arrested more likely to abuse again. Unemployed: arrested more likely to abuse again, not arrested less likely to abuse again (labeling theory) Quantitative-numbers: survey: most common, but hard to establish causal relationship. (exp. Survey on high school gpa, and hours of tv watched suppose more tv u watch lower your gpa. Population: experiment: manipulation of independent variable-clear casual direction. Hawthorne effect and need for control groups(placebo effect-fake medicine, giving someone fake sleeping medicine to help them sleep) Knowing what your smoking is controlled experiment (independent variable) Not knowing what you"re smoking is the uncontrolled (dependent variable: observation: lab, field, participant. Possible effects of observers: secondary analysis: content analysis (qualitative).
