SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informed Consent, Dependent And Independent Variables, Spurious Relationship

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: La Torre Aurelie

Document Summary

Deductive approach and inductive approach: inductive = small facts to build a theory (generating a new theory, deductive = aimed at testing a theory. Ethics: do no harm, voluntary participation, informed consent. Case studies: used to gather in depth information about a specific situation. Surveys: generalize: apply what you found to a larger group than the 1st one you studied, generalizability: extent to which social scientists can use findings to inform us about a larger group than previous one studied. Field studies: out in the field gathering data. Same questions in same order for everyone: unstructured. Asking questions with open ended answers i guess. Questionnaires: open ended questions, close ended questions. Documents: written source/record (official or informal) People know who you are and why you are here: covert. Not telling the people who you are: covert observation arguments. People change answers when they know you are studying them.