SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Informed Consent, Institutional Review Board, Close Reading
8 Apr 2017
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This chapter focuses on how we know what we know. Social construction of reality- what we know is shaped by our interactions and expectations. It"s something we learn through our experiences and interactions- social. Use certain methods to be as objective as possible. Wide range of scientific ways to investigate various sociological questions. Why familiarity with research is important in our everyday lives: what we don"t know can hurt us, help us understand ourselves and make informed decisions. Two types of data: qualitative: words, best for in depth micro-level research, quantitative: numbers, best for broad macro-level research. You can collect your own data or you can use secondary analysis to examine/ analyze data someone else collected: observational methods. Watching people, can be done in different ways. Experiment- researcher controls environment as much a possible, watches reaction. Need 2 things for an experiment- 1) hypothesis: independent variable-is typically the variable being manipulated or changed.
