SOCIOL 2D06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sampling Frame, Random Assignment, Dependent And Independent Variables
4 Nov 2016
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Basic concepts and issues: some of these concepts are most applicable to quantitative research, but they can also serve a way of conceptualizing qualitative research projects. Theories and hypotheses: most research projects in social psychology start with an idea about how some aspect of social life works. Hypotheses: speci c statements about how variables will relate to one another in a research study. Variables: theoretical concepts put into a measurable form. Saturday, october 8, 2016: translating a concept into something that can be measured is called operationalizing the concept . Hypotheses provide testable statements about theories or parts of a theory. Even though a theory cannot be proved it can still be furthered developed and used to help establish a future relationship between variables. Independent and dependent variables: hypotheses are more speci c than theories since they are speci c to the variables being measured in a given project, variables are theoretical and have more than one measure.
