SOC200H1 Lecture 4: week 4 lec
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Variable: logical gr of attributes eg gender, education, predujice. Attributes: male, female, educated or uneducated, prejudiced or unprejudiced. Independent variable: determines the dependent variable, the cause. Social theory: helps us to explain what we see. Concepts: are used in theories: are abstract elements. Hypothesis: specify the meanings of all the variables in the study. Induction: discovering principles from specific observation from fact to theory. Deduction: apply theory to a particular case to see if theory explains this case. Ethical issues bring no phy, emo harm, the shortcoming of the study. = can cover all 3 in one study. Grs, ind: be clear about who we study. 1 cross-sectional studies: a sinlg point in time. 2 trend studies: examine given char of some pop over time. 3 cohort studies: some specific pop study over time. 4 panel study: collect data from the same set of ppl at several points in time.
