SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consistency, Qualitative Property, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Project a questions: 4 sets of hypotheses. Each set must be logically consistent: a > b > b > c > a > c. Set 1 racial/ethnic diversity: comparing 4 social contexts: Set 2 education: comparing 3 social context: Set 3 income: comparing 3 social context: Set 4 poverty: comparing 3 social context: Research strategies: induction process in which you are discovering the independent variables, deduction testing pre-established independent variables. Already decided what in uences dependent variable see if right or wrong: dependent variable: Population large group of people you want to study. Census collect data from every member of the population. Sample collect data from some members of the population: should be random and representative. Random every member of population has an equal chance of being in the sample. Survey: structured questions and responses, example: Experiment: attempt to test one hypothesis under highly controlled conditions, example: Milgram shock experiment: qualitative methods curry.