SOC387H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
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For example: how would each school of thought capture the experience of. In terms of qualitative methods, we have many forms: interviewing, focus groups, ethnography, context analysis and so forth. Assumptions: people observing gangs assume those researching it are being affected the same way, which is not true. Women, men, families are all affected differently: jane and finch people assume they have all the same income but they are all different. Different lines of sight: all these different methods show the same reality. Triangulation: when researchers examine reality from multiple viewpoints. Lines of action: using multiple data collection techniques, theories and combine them all together. Example: for measuring violence in american films, you can do a: triangulation of measures; this is when researchers take multiple measure of the same phenomena. Assumptions of symbolic interactionists: humans are unique animals, human behaviour is learned.
