SOC 3392 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Literary Digest, Royal Institute Of Technology, Sampling Frame
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Spatial behavior- where do people sit, how much space do they take up etc. Types of nonverbal behavior- starring, touching, spacing, pointing, names, interrupting. Participants observation- the least controlled method of observation; includes complete participant, complete observer, and participant-as- observer. Complete participant- problems of invasion of privacy, not recording on the spot, and role distance. Going native becoming apart of the group losing the sociology side of yourself. Parameter- a number that exists for the population. Sampling unit- a single member of a population. Population- actual group of people you are collecting data from. 1936 literary digest prediction- the problem was that the literary. Digest used telephone books and automobile registrations for their sample and this was in the middle of the great depression so it did not include the poor. Normal curve- 95% of the area under a normal curve is between +2 and -2 standard deviations. Non- probability sample- non-scientific; not representative of a sample.
