SOCL 2001 Chapter : SOCL 2001 Chapter 2
Document Summary
Social research: not just an opinion, objective gathering of data, guided by rules and procedures. This has a problem with validity because the survey is all lsu students but you are only surveying freshman. If you wanted it to be valid you would have to survey all students. Qualitative: ethnography, studying people in their own environment in order to understand their activities, field notes, to describe activities and interactions, later becomes the basis of their ethnographics. Interviews: direct, face-to-face contact with respondents, close-ended imposes a limit on the possible responses. Inexpensive: disadvantage, lack of data, you might have a hard time acquiring these items, experiments, controlled setting to test specific variables, advantages, manipulate data, high replicability, disadvantages, artificial setting. Ethics: do no harm, do not cause the subject any emotional or physical pain. Informed consent: knowing what study is about and how results will be used, confidentiality.
