SOC100H5 Chapter Notes -Hawthorne Effect, Sampling Frame, Participant Observation
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Week 2: research methods: main predictor of academic success: parental income and education, philosophical origins, epistemology: how do we know what we know, ontology: what is reality. Deference to tradition or authority rules govern observations, findings, conclusion. Social science neutral: research: the process of systematically observing reality to assess the validity of a theory, dialectics of research o. Nomothetic: explaining a set of cases using a handful of facts. Inductive vs. deductive o: quantitative vs. qualitative, pure vs. Variables are complex and difficult to measure: purpose. Depth, detail, flexibility, etc: researcher role, advantages, disadvantages being watched, quantitative, assumptions. Hawthorne effect: people act differently when they know they are. Causal explanation: approach, researcher role, advantages, disadvantages. Deductive: beings with hypothesis and then find data. Could be inaccurate due to overly controlled nature: operationalization: specify what is to be measure before assigning a value to the variable, experiments, mid-1960s children exposed to tv violence.
