SOC200H1 Lecture : lecture
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Unobtrusive not effecting not intervening study social behavior without affecting it, not going out to the fields. Content analysis, and the related concept of discouse analysis. Ethics concern are miniminal not interacting directly with participant, not causing any harm not interacting directly with people, Good we cant go back in time but study written archieves and articles, if u want u can change not going to runaway, minimal cost unless u have to go somewhere ex paris, Problems with validity and realibilty, but all research pluses and minuses. Ex of it, garbage anlaysis going through trash, read diaries of teenagers what they complian or worry about out boys or parents. Analyzing existing statistics, durkheim developed anonimc suicide, consulted officel doc. Stats can, euro stat, exploded access to internet find stuff online, work with whats available, confidential things such as hospital not release to any other parties, Cant always work with individual with unit of analysis but aggregates of groups.
