SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Control, Elusive Quality, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate
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Risk for the researcher: especially if the interviewee has emotional issues- they, this prof had to slowly convince some interviewee to leave the interview because he was so drunk and all over the place. As the researcher, the prof had to stop the behavior as soon as he could. Also because in that state, the interviewee was in no capacity to give thoughtful answers: this is why it is really hard to study deviance. What is a theory: different for other disciplines where measurements are more reliable(ex. Spuriousness: a false assumption of causality, more common in statistics but found in qualitative work, ex. Advantages words: can allow the deviant to express themselves in their own, you might find that as ice cream sales go up, murder rates will also go up. Allows questions to be formulated as you go: can lead to unexpected connections.
