SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuremberg Trials, Historical Sociology, Content Analysis
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Quantitative research: trying to find the order in chaos, patterns and regularities between social variables, generalized to large groups, ability to generalize. What is a variable: a variable is an observable characteristic, ex. Qualitative research: captures complexity, captures social meaning, experiences and understanding are better understood, relations between people, rich in description and meaning, a sense of how much kids actually understand class/poverty, how people feel about the data. You can do the quantitative research and get the numbers and facts, but to know how actually someone feels you must discover qualitative research. 6 research methods: survey: in person, phone, mail or email. How are you going to ask the question to get the proper answer: participant obervation. Understand the perspective of those being studied. Able to observe behaviour: qualitative interviews. Asking people questions casually: secondary analysis. Used in content analysis and historical sociology: unobtrusive measures.
