SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Statistical Significance, Sampling Frame, Verstehen
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Concrete experience: obtained by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling or hearing: percepts: small bits of concrete experiences. Percepts from patterns: collections of related percepts. Example: 1 single dot = percepts vs. a collection of dots = pattern: we share concrete level of experience with all other living creatures, concrete level of experiences is meaningless by itself. Abstract experience: imaginary world of the mind placing different objects into a single meaningful category: concepts: abstract terms used to organize concrete experiences. Conceptualization organize your concrete experience by: sociological ideas sorting out which ideas on a topic best describe, propositions: ideas that result from finding the relationship b/t experience concepts. Knowledge based on tradition, authority, casual observation, overgeneralization, selective observation, qualification, illogical reasoning, ego-defence, premature colure of inquiry, and mystification. Sample: part of the population of research interest that is selected for analysis. Population: entire group that researchers want to generalize. 1 goal of scientific research = produce (cid:498)objective(cid:499) results independent observers.
