SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spurious Relationship, Antipositivism, Formal System

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Sociology
• Course: SYG 2000
• Professor: marisiglio,william

Document Summary

Scientific sociology ( positivistic : observable empirical patterns. Interpretive sociology: meaning attached to social worlds. Critical sociology: need for social change, agent for change. Sociology & scientific method: requires data, deductive reasoning. Verstehen ( weber: e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al dista(cid:374)ce fro(cid:373) research process vs hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:862) co(cid:374)(cid:374)ectio(cid:374)(cid:863) A logical system that derives knowledge from systematic obervations. Abstract ideas representing some aspect of the world , somewhat simplified form. Concepts whose values change from case to case. A variable is not any of these things. Validity- quality of measuring precisely what one intends to measure. Conventional research process: choose issue, define problem, review literature, develop hypothesis, operationalize variables, design project, consider ethical issues, consider practical issues, collect data, analyze data, report findings. Correlation: two or more variables change together. Cause and effect: change in one variable ( independent) causes change in another ( dependent) Conditions for cause and effect to be considered. Independent ( causal) variable precedes dependent variable in time.