Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Measurement Problem, Dependent And Independent Variables, Fallacy
20 Jan 2017
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Sociology in practice is not as clear cut or straightforward than youd think but its theories or presumptions of any kind no less scientific than other disciplines biases and this goes for social scientists or natural scientists. Assumes the researcher operates without preconceived ideas, assumptions, You need to be able to freely state your biases because we all have. But you shouldn"t assume people can put away their biases. In natural sciences theres consensus but in sociology we don"t neccesarily. How much of the variation income that"s not explained by our which can be a problem if were measuring things scientifically and therefore we cant agree on framework were supposed to be using. We want to be able to come up with nice neat equations and we cant, at least. Our error term is very big because we have weak variables because they.
