Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Simple Random Sample, Quota Sampling, Cluster Sampling
12 Oct 2013
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Positivism: adopted by durkheim, meaning that he wanted to use the research methods of the natural sciences, appropriately adapted, for the social sciences. Participant observation: researchers observe actual behaviour, talk at length and in depth with those being observed, and ask them the meaning of their behaviour. Hawthorne effect: even being in an experiment can change a subjects behaviour. External validity: refers to how well experimenters can generalize from the lab to the real world, from hypothetical questions to actual behaviour. A quantitative option: survey research: surveys are the most common type of research. Theory: 1)refers to a basic but often abstract approach to subject matter: refers to a set of interrelated statements that organize and summarize existing knowledge about some part of the social world. Variable: for sociologists is something that takes on different values within different groups ( a relationship between two variables means they go together in some way)
