SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: The Communist Manifesto, Sampling Frame, Jargon

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

Document Summary

The survey is the most widely used social science data-gathering technique. Survey research rests on the assumption that social reality is made up of stable, objective facts. We can precisely measure features of social reality to convert it into quantitative data and then use statistics on the data to test causal relationships that exist in social reality. Surveys are appropriate when the research question is about self-reported beliefs or behaviors. Although the categories overlap, you can ask the following aspects of social life in a survey: Is it legal to own a personal copy of karl. One has to be careful not to ask respondents about explanations of social events or actions, the why questions. An important limitation of the survey method is that its data is only about what a person or organization says. What a person says may differ from what he or she truly does or thinks.