SOC 201 Lecture 6: week 6
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Research methods: findings of empirical research (tangible evidence, concept- is an abstract system of meaning that enables us to perceive a phenomena in a certain way. Subject to redefinition and change (definitions of racism changed over time) Want to id something in the real world (like racism) May change our definition of it as we move on. As social scientists we want to now start thinking how we understand a concept. A concept has a possibility of variation. All variables are concepts, but all concepts are not variables. Variable that can be explained in research. Go up & down together (vary together) One goes up, other goes down (vary inversely) Somethings that things come together doesn"t mean they caused the other. A stated relationship that we wish to test in the real world. Critical thinking goes up, racism goes down. A set of related hypotheses that suggest why events occur in the manner that they do.
