Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Random Assignment, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Analytic Induction

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2206A/B
• Professor: William Marshall

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Create a general mental pic of setting! Formulate and focus questions about the setting ! Determine the feasibility of the hypotheses ! Strengths: exible, qualitative, validity (because interviewer can probe interviewee) ! Limitations: time consuming, expensive! process of analytic induction ! 2: examine 1 case in light of your explanation ! Limitations: not exible, lacks detail w/ closed questions ! Extend the theory to new issues ! Determine which explanations work best ! experiments ! an experiment is a mode of observation that enables researchers to probe causal relationships. Relatively limited well de ned concepts and propositions ! It is especially use in the hypotheses testing ! Useful in the study of small groups ! Can be applied beyond the laboratory to real life, called natural experiments ! Random assignment is a menthol of assigning cases to one group or another, based solely on selection procedures that involved chance and therefore are free from human biases!