SOCI301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Binge Drinking, Scientific Method, Tangled
6 Apr 2016
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Why use scientific methods?-the urge to understand & explain/being in accordance with facts/reality. Non scientific approach-based on intuition/gut reactions/personal experience, unreliable & invalid (ex: interested in presidential election and preference of pres is irrelevant/not enough to conclude general representation from 1 single person) Scientific approach-based on evidence, reality, fact, doesn"t change depending on personal preference, systematics steps, logical reasoning to connect arguments (ex: collecting survey between males and females-see if females do actually binge drink more) Scientific method to analyze research question scientific method to collect. Diff types of methods/data: experimental or observational study. Distinguish abstract topic/theme of the research vs. identify research question (questions about some concrete aspects of the topic)-procedures to collect data-data-techniques to analyze the data. Research questions: what are the effects of binge drinking on academic performance, how does poverty affect overall health, what are the differences in infant mortality between married.
