SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dieting, Infant Mortality, Content Analysis
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Unobtrusive means not invading or disturbing anything, basically not interacting with that which you"re studying. Unobtrusive method is a type of social science method that doesn"t disturb or affect the social environment or social behaviour being studied. Study of actual rather than reported behaviour meaning you"re looking at behaviour and you"re not being told about it. You know someone who"s gone on a diet and after the first week, they tell you they don"t know why they didn"t lose any weight. They had chicken, salad, water everyday and exercised. You"d probably find more than just chicken, etc. leftovers in the garbage. Can see what they actually ate rather than what they tell you they ate. Actual behaviour another example: student tells you they didn"t do well but downloaded all lecs and studied them (reported) but you check to see they didn"t (actual). Distortion of original record meaning the original record might not be a true reflection of what"s going on.
