CRIM 320- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Crim 320 january 17th lecture 2: review of methods and statistics. Have ideas about the nature of social reality. Theories are developed to link ideas together to explain phenomenon. Aim of science prove (or disprove) theories. Hypothesis testable statement about the nature of social reality: relationship between different variables, ex: delinquent child from broken home, need to create measurable observations (need to measure the concept) Measurement assigning a unit of analysis to an attribute on a variable. Unit of analysis a person or thing from which data are collected (object that is being studied: aggregates = groups: school (unit of analysis, data = the things that we want to know: ex. Variable set of logical attributes that are of interest to the researcher. Age: characteristics that we are interested in knowing about, if everyone is the same, no variable, there will be constant, iv (use to explain the phenomenon), dv (outcome interested in, conceptualization.
