SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Constructionism, Ethnography, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Pure: testing and generating theory, interested in generating knowledge. Applied: has a specific purpose within the world. Marketing research is applied addressing the needs of a business, but it is not evaluating research as it is not related to a social problem. Policy: laws, rules, regulations enacted by government or other social institutions, designed to make social changes. Social intervention: a process to intervene, by looking at policies look for need for social intervention and the effect of social intervention. Strategies that we use to help the problem. Defining terms is the first way to be precise. Outcomes can be conceptualized as having multiple dimensions. Random assignment some people to experiment and control group. Effects of teaching students how to resolve conflict productively. Relevant population for the intervention is high school students. What is the measure going to be for the conflict resolution program. With the consent of parents and teachers, they had experimental and control groups.
