SOCIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participant Observation, Content Analysis, Scientific Method
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Participant observation notes throughout the process. a participant observation - a qualitative method that seeks to uncover the meanings people give their social actions by observing their behavior in practice. > usually involves observing and/or participating for a long period of time, and taking extensive. Unstructured - allow participants to talk freely about topics of interest but probe them to go into. > attempts to use the scientific method by controlling for other factors. Structured - have a specific set of questions to be asked in a particular order. Qualitative methods - methods that attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be. Surveys readily converted to numeric form. a survey - an ordered series of questions intended to elicit information from respondents. > often used to understand and document the meanings of social actions or describe the mechanisms.
