SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Spurious Relationship, General Social Survey, Scientific Method

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Causality: developing techniques to improve their ability to make causal arguments. Ethnographers: researchers who entered the everyday lives of those they study and hope so understanding how people navigate and give meaning to their worlds. General social survey:groups of investigators that gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-beings of canadians overtime and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest. Reliability:sociologist wanted to know if they use the same measurement technique in an additional study;they would end up with similar results. Replicated: the same results can be found by more than one researcher. Sample:process of identifying the subjects a researcher will study scientific method: formulate a research hypothesis; predict the relationship between the independent and dependent variable; find existing data or collect new data; analyze data; draw conclusions;