Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Qualitative Property, Cohort Study, Content Analysis
6 Feb 2018
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Social research is a process in which people combine a set of principles, outlooks, and ideas with a collection of specific practices, techniques, and strategies to produce knowledge. "senior fellow" and works at a think tank. If something happens to you, you accept it to be true: 4 common errors of personal experience, overgeneralization (most common): some evidence supports your beliefs but you falsely assume that it also applies to many other situations. Is a collection of people who practice science and a set of norms, behaviours, and attitudes that bind them together. Use of research: academic research, academic social research advances fundamental knowledge about the social world. Social impact research study: estimates the likely consequences of a planned intervention to occur in the future, researcher forecast how aspects of the social environment may change and suggests ways to mitigate changes.
