SOCPSY 2K03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Midterm: Hawthorne Effect, Statistical Inference, Observer-Expectancy Effect
2 Oct 2020
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Chapter 1 main points: this book"s subject is how we find out about social reality. In causal explanation, the presumed cause is the independent variable; the affected variable i the dependent variable. Idiographic explanations seek to understand specific causes fully, whereas nomothetic explanations seek a generalized understanding of many cases. Independent variable a variable believed to produce changes in a dependent variable: dependent variable a variable whose changes we are interested in explaining. Idiographic explanation an accounting that aims to understand or make sense of the multiple causes of a specific event: nomothetic explanation an accounting that identifies a few common causes of a broad category of events. Chapter 4: research design and the logic of causation. Interval measure a level of measurement describing a variable whose attributes are rank-ordered and have equal distances between adjacent attributes: the celsius temperature scale is an example of this, because the distance between. Indicator an empirical specification of some abstract concept.
