SOCY 210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Guttman Scale, Ecological Fallacy, Likert Scale

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Fiona Kay

Document Summary

Use data appropriate to what your are asking. Theory = deterministic should be able to prove or disprove it (2)probabilistic. Exceptions do not mean you throw out the theory or the theory is not good. Variables and attributes (1)variable logical groupings of attributes (gender) (2)attributes characteristics of people or things (male and female) Inductive and deductive theory (1)inductive observations to patterns, exploration, from data to the theory, generalizable inferences from observations, qualitative research, interviews or studying communities. Observe aspects of social life and then see to discover patters that may point to universal patterns (2)deductive general to more speci c, verifying, from theory to the data, theories used to make hypotheses, quantitative research. Specify topic and range of phenomena, who will it apply to, nd major concept and variables, reason logically from propositions to the speci c topic you are examining. Collects data but doesn"t provide a deeper explanation or concepts.