SOC 101LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spurious Relationship
28 Jun 2019
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The behavior occur in its nature setting researcher take part in the event he or she is observing, describe and analyze . The sociology gain insight beyond and gained from more distant description and survey . some behaviors and beliefs can only be understood in more intimate, day to day relationships or vy just being there when things happen. Results are not generalizable; hard to rule out spuriousness. The problem of researcher s attachment and detachment to the community is blurring of subjectivity and objectivity. Researchers analyze data already collected by others(data sets) A disadvantage of secondary analysis is that the research must rely on someone else"s research and , consequently, can not be certain that the data were systematically gathered, accurately recorded, and biase avoid. Research based on the study of documents--written sources that provide data, such as letters, diaries, newspaper, book, police reports, and government records(social media poshing.
