SOCI 211- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
4 Oct 2017
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Understand which methods are best for addressing a given research question keeping in mind theoretical interests and practical constraints. True/false and mc and short answers and long answer. Informal information : occurs when we make observations without systematic process for observing or assessing accuracy of what we observed. Sometimes, a friend tells you about the quality of a course. Selective observation : when we see only patterns we want to see or we assume that the patterns we have experienced directly exist. Overgeneralization : occurs when we assume that broad patterns exist when our observation have been limited. For example, your facebook friends like all a specific actor, but your facebook friend is a representation of yourself. Authority : a socially defined source of knowledge that might shape our beliefs about what is true and what is not true. Research methods : an organized logical way of learning and knowing about our social word.
