SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hawthorne Effect
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Sometimes use experimental method, but not often for 2 reasons; In the real world, what is called the field, it is typically not possible for the sociologist to manipulate the variables that need to be manipulated. More often use the method of survey research. Statistically describe: typically we use questionnaires or interviews with questions that are structured in nature. They are determined before hand and everyone is asked the same question using the same words, in the same order. A second problem is that the categories might not me exhaustive in nature. This means that the categories that you give the respondent may not include the category that the respondent might not want to use. Sociologists have things that happen in society, and all of the sudden you see a lot of sociologists looking at that. All you get back is a checkmark in a box, and you may misinterpret what they meant when they put in the box.