SOCIOL 2D06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Content Analysis, Participant Observation, Ethnography
20 Apr 2016
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Social theories refer to organized arguments about how various elements of social life are related to one another. Theories are general, can"t be tested directly. Refined into testable hypotheses before being examined by one or more research methods. Hypotheses are specific statements about how variables will related to one another in a research study. They"re the general predictions of a theory state in a more specific testable form. Variables are theoretical concepts put into a measurable form. Operationalizing the concept translating a concept into something that can be measured. Hypotheses more specific than theories they are limited to the variables being measured in a given project. Variables theoretically relevant measures that have two or more values. Example: variable age is measured in years, and might have 60+ values (age 18-80) Independent variable variable predicted to lead to a change in another variable. Dependent variable variable that is predicted to change as a result of the independent variable.
