SOC222H5 Chapter 2: Reading Note-Chapter 2
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Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5: as social researchers, we often have to deal with very large amounts of data. Proportions and percentages: frequency distributions are helpful in representing information in a compact form. 39,956,000: percentage: as a relative frequency obtained by dividing the frequency in each category by the total number of cases and multiplying by 1000, 21,224,000= . 53 x 100. Comparisons: several types of comparisons are quite common in the social sciences, one type is the comparison between groups that have different characteristics, ex. Comparisons between old and younger americans, white and asian. Pacific islander: another type is looking at regional differences among groups or in comparing groups from different segments of society, ex. Contrast in voting patterns between gun owners and non-gun owners or between liberals and conservatives: you may also be interested in comparing changes in the same group overtime, ex.
