SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Birth Weight, Social Science, Ethnography
17 Nov 2016
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A look at ourselves: long and all (2008) Really hard to gain access for social scientist. Qualitative research gathers information that is not in numerical form (ex. Quantitative research gathers data in numerical form which can be put in categories or in rank order (ex. Quantitative social science approach to health and illness. Rate: refers to the proportion of a specified population that experiences a grieve circumstance. Number of events period / specified population during that period x. Incidence: refers to the number of new occurrences of an event within a specified population during a specified period. Prevalence: refers to total number of cases within a specified population at a specified time- both those newly diagnosed in previous years but still living with the condition under study. Qualitative approach to health and illness: ingold, 2014. Fieldwork (ethnography): field work is the study of people and of their culture in their natural habitat.
