SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stanley Milgram, Informed Consent, Philip Zimbardo
16 Jun 2015
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Administrative: tutorials start next week, complete research before deciding on topic, office hours 4 30- 630 (6th floor kth 612)-ta first, look at author sources when trying to find more articles. Use of official statistics : someone else has collected the data, used for your own purposes. General social survey (5000 canadian sample)-themed about topics such as: perceptions of crime, victim of crime, etc. Qualitative- looking at how the feel, their relationships due to the divorce"s influence. Quantitive- looking at the numbers involved with the children, how much they make. Isolate the impact of a variable on another: does not require a large sample, reliability is consistency v. s. validly is accuracy (if the measurement accurately represents the question) Limitations of surveys: designing good is difficult (mutually exclusive = no overlapping answers (income 0-999, 1000-1999,etc. and exhaustive categories)-difficult to answer racial background, e. x.
