SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Formal System, Knowledge Engineering, List Of Statistical Packages
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Sociological investigation: up until about the 17th century, theology was our base of knowledge, after that, people started using scienti c methods as the base of knowledge. Science - logical system that bases knowledge on direct and systematic observation, position of knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding. Methods of research: experimentation - testing a hypothesis. Stanford university - study on violence in jail system (environment vs. personal character causing violence: survey - asking questions. Spss - statistical package of social sciences. Concept/sample - mental construct that represents some part of the world in a very simpli ed form. Variable/factor - mental construct, example: relationship between income & education.
