SOAN 2120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Internal Validity, Simple Random Sample, Nonprobability Sampling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

Document Summary

Functionalism: if something exists in society it has a purpose such as systems. Consensus: if something is no longer functional society comes together and gets rid of it. Believe the rich expose and take advantage of the poor. Focuses on the effect of capitalism on society. Tries to understand the meanings people associate with actions and behavior. Qualitative: variables that cannot be ranked in order and are non-numerical. Experiments: take place in a very controlled environment. There may be a pretest and posttest as well as treatment. There is no pretest or posttest besides the survey. Used to collect general information about a population. Categorical: (qual) no ranked order, non-numerical. (ex. religion and race) Sample distribution: the distribution of a variable using data from our sample. Population distribution: the distribution of the variable in the population. Sampling distribution: the distribution of the mean of a variable from all possible samples. Statistics that summarize the central location of variables.