SOC221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Structured Interview, Social Desirability Bias, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
4 Nov 2018
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Quantitative research entails: collection of numerical data, a deductive relationship between theory and research. Friday, november 2, 2018: preference for natural science to research (positivist, objectivist conception of social reality, numerical representation and manipulation of observations for purpose of explaining/describing social phenomenas. Untested statements specify relation between two theoretical concepts between. Hypotheses that come from your prediction says that an a ect from these variables will be present. 5 characteristics: need at least 2 variables, express a casual or cause relationship between two variables, can be expressed as prediction. Avoid double barrelled hypotheses: unclear, may say two factors cause x unlike interaction e ect where this is intended. Measurement rede nes abstract concept into something we can detect empirically (senses) Concepts= building blocks of theory and what being studied/compared/related ideas or mental representation of things/abstract that described portrait of reality. : with deductive reasoning we take abstract ideas into something testable/can be divided into variables.
