SOC-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Qualitative Sociology, William Fielding Ogburn
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Though most important thing for a sociologist to do was to go around all the neighborhoods of the city and find out what was going on by meeting people who were the subjects of sociologists" theories. Contributed to the idea of the city as laboratory" and this influenced. Major contributor to qualitative sociology and the idea that sociology should improve the human quality of life in society. Highly skeptical of qualitative research and the idea that sociology should influence public policy. Viewed park"s progressive sociological research framework as inappropriate for an objective science. Believed sociology should strive to mirror the natural sciences. Sociology should be rooted in disinterested quantitative analysis. Both of these researchers sought to create a truly scientific sociology, but they held different beliefs about how this should be accomplished. The people who are the focus of social research. Standardized (fixed choice): set of questions to which only a fixed range of responses is possible.
