SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Siq, If I Were A Boy, Historical Sociology
30 Mar 2018
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Med world: gary jules: nonverbal communications, use bodies conveys meaning, how people express themselves, may afraid other may look through you. Today: research methods (focus on limitations, research ethics: do no harm! How would you study: biker gangs --------- observation study: participant observation, how couples manages their family finances ------------ surveys: interview, self- administered questionnaires (question wife and husband separately); ask questions about gender differences in spending. Quantitative vs qualitative research: quantitative - availability of numerical data. Social phenomena captured nicely by stats: qualitative - focus on process (how, why); giving voice to participants, from their perspective, which type of research is superior, example: children of divorced parents (are they more skeptical or more marriage) Cross-sectional vs longitudinal: cross-sectional - data taken at one point in time, example: study of adolescent mothers (ask question about the mother and the child"s well. Longitudinal - study done at more than one point in time being)
