SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Sociological Review, Simple Random Sample, Convenience Sampling
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Chapter 1 of the textbook: sources of knowledge that exist. 3 common sense (do not murder because if you do, you will get punished) 4 media myth (crime rates are rising) 5 personal experience (something bad happens to you, you look for that in similar experiences; i. e. i hated that class) 6 scieniic (science data: pieces of informaion, numbers, writen words, visuals/images, sound, objects = quanitaive, there is also qualitaive data. Mixed methods = beneits from both qualitaive and quanitaive methods of research. Qualitaive (interviews, focus groups, ethnography (ield research, case study), historical research (traveling somewhere to analyse historical set of documents) Theory is a set of proposiions that are logically interrelated. Theory and method are related but can be arranged diferently. Marx, weber, durkheim are imeless because they are developing ideas that explain how society works. They were working at the most abstract levels of thinking.
