ASOC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Jargon, Qualitative Property, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
2 Jun 2017
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Friday, april 21, 2017 similarities to quantitative analysis. * examining empirical data to reach some conclusion. * you ultimately make your research public it"s to help inform and understand. * always making comparisons aspects that are alike and different. Less standardized in methods, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing. * quantitative analysis occurs after you collect the data. Qualitative analysis is a circular process of understanding the data as it"s being collected. * theory evolves out of illustrating abstract concepts with empirical data. * social life is variable and abstract unlike the discrete categorization of variables and attributes. * differs from the statistical jargon of numbers, percent distributions, significance levels conceptualization. * text that builds a detailed description of social life. * begins with data collection not before. * how you organize and make sense of the data is as it"s collected.
