SA 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Snowball Sampling, Lifeworld, Grand Tour

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 255
• Professor: Nicholas Scott

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Quant - want to achieve a representative sample. Extreme/deviant case = to obtain an outlier. 2 extreme cases on opposite sides of the spectrum. Typologies - more than 2 kinds of cases. Eg. who has the highest rates of the thing, vs. who has the lowest rates of the thing. Where you can generalize from a particular case. 2 kinds: least likely cases and most likely cases. Has the least chance of showing smth you"re interested in. If it shows it, you can generalize that other places will be able to do it too. Develops metaphor, pattern, finding domain for further future cases. A case can be a ct, csd, cma. Analogues - eg. max variation in between similar cts in the same larger csd. Similar kind of thing in a diff context. Cross-scalar - compare a part to a whole. Eg. compare high cycling ct to the whole to show how far from the avg the.