SOCIOL 20- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
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Week 1: quantitative, numerical, objective, tangible, qualitative, categorical, subjective, holistic, epistemological orientation : what passes as acceptable knowledge; what we think, positivist(quantitative): the only kind of knowledge that counts is that which comes from scientific method. Inductive: observation pattern tentative confirmation, unit of analysis, variable. Face: looking at a study at face value; is the study valid. Concurrent: study should correlate with an item on another survey. What is sampling: population: the universe of units from which a sample is selected, sample: the segment of the population selected for the study, sampling frame: what you will draw on to obtain the sample. Ex: dmv"s record of all registered drivers: probability, non-probability: a sample selected in any non-random way, sampling bias: a sample that doesn"t represent the population well. Types of non-probability: convenience sample, whoever is available, snowball sample: starts with one then adds up.
