SOCI 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Class, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Falsifiability
3 Feb 2019
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Lecture 1: understand our environment from a scientific point of view, requires certain methods. In the us + canada it is generally good, from sierra leone probably not: crime rates - criminal justice system will generate information on crimes, but we know that the information on crimes underestimates some crimes particularly. Independent variable: social class: have to agree on what we mean by social class, many things will influence the independent variable and dependent variable, human capital, decisions about hours of work. Information on family responsibilites and job choices: what is a hypothesis, research question restated in a testable form. If you can"t test it, it means that you can say anything. Inductive/deductive theorizing: deductive, perceptions of justice involve comparisons, comparisons are between what one person has and what others have, salience of comparison varies with wealth. Losing can compare differently when someone rich v. some poor lost it: measurements matter, comparisons can be more/less precise.
