SOAN 2120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: System On A Chip, Time Series, Cohort Study

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

Document Summary

Steps in research process: topic or area of study, narrow it down on a question to study, decide on practical details of research, after decision made, gather data, analyze data to try and find patterns. 6: write a report to inform others on your conclusions interpret data. Basic social research: satisfying judgements done by other sociologists subjects and problems selected with freedom research judged by norms and highest standards. Main concern w/ logic and research design. Goal is to contribute to basic theoretical knowledge success = research in journal and impacts scientific community. Applied social research: research is part of job and judged by sponsors not in soc. Problems due to demands of employers and sponsors. Goal is to have payoff or use for results success = results used by sponsors standards depend on use of results (can be lazy or thorough)