SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participatory Action Research, Stanley Milgram, Laud Humphreys
6 Oct 2015
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Independent and dependent variables: quantitative studies use variables, variables: characteristics of objects, people, or groups of people that can be measured, independent: can be varied or manipulated by researchers, dependent: reaction of the participants to this manipulation, operational definition: description of how a variable is measured, researchers come up with one. Hypotheses: inductive logic: a system of reasoning that moves from data to the formation of a, researcher gathers information about a topic before developing theories about how to explain particular aspects of it, deductive logic: a system of reasoning that moves from theory to the formulation of hypotheses for testing, researchers develop a theory or set of theories to explain or predict a pattern. Research population about: research population: a group of people that a researcher wishes to learn something, sample: a subset of the larger research population, in large scale quantitative studies, a random sample is often used, variety of research methods used to answer their research questions.
