SOCL 2002 Chapter : Symbolic Interactionism And Data Types
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Gestures: thumbs up, middle finger, state, country. Discussion of things in immediate presence, abstract ideas, the past/history, or future planning: create and maintain complex societies. Secondary data: information gathered by other people (ex. Research firms either public or private such as the. Qualitative research: an in-depth look at social processes (answers questions like how? and why? and is not for number punching: ethnography: the study of groups as an outside. People might change their behavior if they observer (ex. Gary fine and with the boys ) know they are being watched: participant observation: the study of groups by essentially becoming part of the group itself (ex. Allows researchers to gather more honest information: both cause researchers to become dependent on one small group to stand for society as a whole, often posing the question of external validity. People question is your information able to be generalized into other groups within an entire society? .
