SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Response Bias, Participant Observation, Operationalization
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5 characteristics of a science: based on observable facts, uses explicit and formal methodology. 3: way we understand may change, but facts do not. 4: provides some degree of prediction and control, explains social events but can"t control / predict. Science: truth is outside the observer (procedures) Methodology: a set of systematic procedures that guide the collection and analysis of data. Everything we think we know can be questioned. Research provisional answers to questions posed by theory. Different theories ask different questions about the same reality. All research is by nature, comparable (mills) Conceptualization: a process of specifying what we mean by a term. Operationalization: process of specifying how a concept will be measured. Any variable considered to cause or have an effect on some other variable. Whether they are the victim of violence. Variables that may have an effect on out dependent variable but are not included in.
