SOCI301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Crime Victimization Survey, Belmont Report, Syphilis

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI301
• Professor: liyingluo

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Survey=collects information from a sample of units through their responses/mostly asking questions (ex: american national election studies-cross sectional study (units not the same across time), wisconsin longitudinal survey (same units across time), national crime victimization survey (female/male, general)) Versatile=can get information about almost any topic. Efficient=can ask a lot of questions quickly and at a low cost. Generalizable=conclusions can be generalized to a larger population when appropriate random sampling methods are used. Questionnaire-a bunch of questions, can be: open-ended (without explicit response choices/for explorative purposes or for obtaining detailed info, fixed-response (provide explicit response choices/easy to process/less ambiguity. Ex: good, bad, sometimes, often: maintain focus on keeping your research question in mind. Stanford prison experiment-male college students needed for psych study of prison life. per day for 1-2 weeks starting aug 14. Effects prison can have on human behavior, one of the most influential studies in social science. Syphilis experiments in guatemala-determine if a drug is effective for treating.