SOC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Duncan J. Watts, False Dilemma, American Exceptionalism
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The retina of the eye is the place in the body with the most sex hormone receptors outside of our reproductive system, so how we see the world is shaped by sex. Search methods: approaches that social scientists use for investigating the answers to questions. 2 general categories of methods for gathering sociological data: quantitative method: seek to obtain information about the social world that is already in or can be converted to numeric form. Uses statistical analysis to describe the social world that those data represent. Acquired through surveys but may include data by sampling bank records or weighing people on a scale. Qualitative method: collect information about the social world that cannot be readily converted to numeric forms. It is used to document the meanings that actions engender in social participants or to describe the mechanisms by which social processes occur.
