SOCI 4600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Linear Regression, Partial Correlation, Regression Analysis
13 Aug 2013
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Final exam 3h06 notes: j. lewis- 1 & 10. Social scientists attempt to explain and predict human behavior. Take educated guesses about nature of social reality. Examine characteristics of human behavior called variables: characteristics that differ or vary from one individual to another ex. Age, social class, attitude, or one point in time to another ex. Most useful research methods employed by social researchers for testing their hypotheses are: experiment, survey, content analysis, participant observation and secondary analysis. Distinguished by the degree of control a researcher is able to apply to the research situation. Have a direct hand in creating the effect that they seek to achieve. Retrospective: the effects of independent variables are recorded after they have occurred seek to reconstruct these influences and consequences by means of verbal reports from their respondents in self-administered questionnaires, face-to-face interviews or phone interviews.
