SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Participant Observation, Nomothetic, Ethnography
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Format: answer 15 of 16 questions: written, should be to the point, not essay writing. Test whether relationship history calendar offer more accurate results. Use standard interviews for one sample, and rhc for another. Authors see whether the samples have similar levels of frequency of sex and number of sexual partners. Random selection into two groups, see if their responses o. Find that rhc sample are different: women more partners men fewer partner. Probability that any differences is just because of the differences between people in the sample. Neg - rhc causing it to go down. Pos - rhc causing it to go up. Qualitative methods: an umbrella term o. Textbook: interviews, participant observation, ethnography case study of individual or small group: are largely about how to get and interpret certain types of data. What"s the proper way to get these data and how to analyze it o.