SOC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Structured Interview, Ethnography, Stratified Sampling

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Functionalist perspective is interested in the smooth functioning of society: the functions of families within society, such as how families teach their children about future roles like parenthood. Theoretical perspective, conflict theorist interested in the struggle over scarce resources by different groups in society and how elites use power to control the less powerful. Symbolic interactionists are interested in face-to-face encounters and the meanings that people use to facilitate social life. Involves converting some aspect of social life to numerical data and testing if there is significant relationship between sets of data: variables: characteristics of objects, people, or groups of people that can be measured. Qualitative: regarding non-numerical data; the researcher is the research instrument: focuses on social behaviours that cannot be easily counted or measured. Inductive logic: a way of reasoning that moves from data to the formation of a theory. Select/define research problem develop research design collect data analyze data review literature.