SOCL 2211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ambert, General Idea, Literature Review
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You should be able to define, list, and use in examples. There will be questions like compare and contrast or list the types, etc: science, methods. Techniques used to collect data: methodology. Broader term encompassing theoretical,philosophical and political considerations of the researcher. Authority: ways of knowing: personal experience, media myths, common sense, tradition, authority, because i said so because an authority figure told you the way life was. Tradition: common sense, the way it has always been. Media myths: media is a mirror reflecting back what society is, sociologists see how skewed the media represents society. Well i know someone refutes science because of the experience the person has applied to the world: errors in personal experience: overgeneralization, selective observations, premature closure, halo effect. Overgeneralization: going far beyond what is justified by the data, making generalization about a whole based on a limited sample. Selective observation: picking observations, seeing only certain cases, observation bias.
