SA 255 Lecture 1: Week 1_ Course Introduction

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

Document Summary

Methodological partiality = no one method (qual, quant, photos) gives you a total objective view. Methodology = the theoretically driven analysis of social research methods. Social scientists have to deal with the fact that social research methods are: Learning outcomes identify/describe diff ways of designing and doing social research. Discriminate b/w qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. Apply a diversity of research methods to social phenomena. Create, analyze, and triangulate data (qualitative and quantitative) Library of secondary sources - secondary sources for each assignment.