SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, Longitudinal Study, Exogeny
24 Jun 2012
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Social research is considered to have 2 orientation: applied. Solve particular problems/look at specific aspects of the social world. Sponsored by agencies and large corporations, implemented by the government. Use outside of academia; lawyers, social work and so on: basic. Not to solve shit, just to look at it. Three main purposes of research: exploration. To become more familiar of a research topic of field. Problems that are yet to be defined. It is a very new topic, cannot draw an easy conclusion to it. Challenging, because few guidelines to follow, and research might change as you progress in research: description. Stats can either be concrete (age, gender, population) or abstract (level of inequality, etc ) Cannot describe the cause of the relationship. Represents a descriptive detail of behaviour or situation. Blurs with or follows from explorative research. Casual and explanation, answers to why certain events happen. Exp, how gender is related to income.
