ASOC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organic Food, Spurious Relationship
2 Jun 2017
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Theories: everyday and research wednesday, february 1, 2017 forms of explanation. * theoretical explanation general rules or principles explaining the connections between concepts. * ordinary explanation describes something, a relationship, an event makes the concept clear and understandable forms of explanation. * something will occur: the weather, the economy, the election, the buying demand. It is easier to predict than to explain . * more logical and complex forms of explanation. * causal explanation describing the cause and effect relationship. * when the study design builds in controls through the situation and physical conditions. * quantitative studies gather data on many variables which can be used as controls. * autism versus organic foods control for organic food consumption. * your detailed data on attitudes and beliefs establishes logical connections to evaluate conclusions types of relationships. * replication, objective hard facts, tests of validity. * human, social life has so many variants.
