SOCPSY 2K03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: De Jure, Ecological Fallacy, Ordinal Number
2 Oct 2020
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Research methods in social psychology midterm notes (lectures 1-5) Lecture outline: what is science, a brief history of science, looking for reality, the foundations of social science, some dialectics of social research. A brief history of science: pre-socratic science, for most of human history, questions about the nature of the world were answered by religious authorities, but mathematics, astronomy (study of the heavens) emerge in ancient. Looking for reality: ordinary human inquiry, traditional, authority, errors in inquiry and some solutions. Looking for reality - how do we know what we know: personal experience, second-hand knowledge, tradition, authority figures. The foundations of social research: theory, not philosophy or belief, social regularities, what about exceptions, aggregates, not individuals, a variable language. Yet, a vast number of social norms in canadian society create a considerable degree of regularity: traffic patterns, gender wage gap, voter turnout.
