SOC100 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - Social Research Methods SOC 100
10 Feb 2016
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Research methodology: a system of methods a researches uses to gather data on a particular question. The only authentic knowledge is that which allows positive verification . August comte: objective scientific methods used to study the natural sciences could be applied to the social sciences. Experiment, measurement, systematic observation based on sensory experience. For much of sociology"s history it was believed that the objective outsider would provide. Who can best critically examine a group? the best research. Describes and explains behaviour, values, beliefs, and practices of participants in a given. Groups are studied through fieldwork naturalistic; become a member ( participant. Wanted to understand boxing: prof boxers are treated like they are selling their bodies, prostitution cultural setting observation ) Research design that takes as its subject a single case or a few selected examples of a: identify and describe best practices, not as in-depth as ethnography, toddler and tiaras justice, sexualisation of children.
