SOC200H1 Lecture Notes - Content Analysis, Sampling Frame, Logical Reasoning
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Unobtrusive research: methods of studying social behaviour without affecting it. This include analysis of existing statistics, content analysis and comparative research. Durkheim study is example of analysis of existing statistics. In content analysis, researchers examine a class of social artifacts that are usually written documents such as newspaper editorials. Historical and comparative research is one in which the main resources for observation and analysis are historical records. The method of using existing statistics is particularly significant because existing statistics should always be considered at least a supplemental source of data. Can also provide the main data for a social scientific inquiry. Social stability and integration seemed to be a protection against suicide. He began confident that religion played a important role in matter of suicide. Suggested many suicides are a product of anomie or normlessness or a general sense of social instability and disintegration.
