Sociology 3306A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Time Management, Dependent And Independent Variables, Statistical Process Control
8 Apr 2015
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Literature reviews: can stimulate new ideas, satisfy the ideal of communalism. Is your research hypothesis consistent with previous research: does it stand on the shoulders of past researchers? (virtually all published research does so. , new research doesn"t come out of a vacuum. Integrate or summarize past research: this isn"t something you will have to do in this course save it for your. Sample literature review: global context, obesity is a pandemic 1. 4 billion overweight adults in 2008 among whom 200 million men and 300 million women were obese, developing countries (latin america, the middle east, north africa and. Children in single parent families are slightly worse off (there is an association), but it is impossible to get a causality. As age goes up, weight goes up: sociologists do quasi-experimental research (using controls) We find that the relationship between income and being overweight is no longer straight forward.
