SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ower, Statistical Significance, Meritocracy
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Research: research can often be used to better understand our social world. It can lead to policy decisions, debunking of myth, and challenging of paradigms. Every single time we hear about policy changes, we hear about research. So that when they wanted to make changes to a high school curriculum, it was often prefaced by research. Research has a huge significance on how we develop our societies now. school curriculum, access to social welfare, etc. It is also often ignored by policy makers when it does not fit their political agenda birth-provision-083672. html. Social inequities: research can be used for political processes. Occurs in the mind, defined by imagination. Employs concepts and propositions: concepts: abstract terms used to organize concrete experience (p. 36, propositions: ideas that result from finding the relationship between. Science and scientific thinking: science is based on evidence. Deductions are made according to the data available. Based on the observation and collection of data.
