SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Class
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When we create a hypothesis, we are not asserting that it reflects something true. We create them to test whether the posited relationships between the variables are true or false. Each of the five hypotheses just given follows the same basic form: This format is really a form of shorthand. The more precise way of stating the hypothesis is this: Different attributes of variable x are related to different attributes of variable y. Let s reexamine the first three of our five hypotheses for their more precise meaning. H1: differences in gender are related to differences in occupation. [that is, men and women tend to be employed in different occupations. ] H2: differences in age are related to differences in income. [that is, people in different age groups tend to receive different amounts of income. ] H3: differences in social class are related to differences in voting behavior.
