SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute Of Historical Research, Qualitative Property, Participant Observation
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Church, morals, there is on god, tradiional thinking and noions on how people act. Common sense: don"t murder, how much money you have dictates what kind of job you have. Tone that the media takes when something happens, Empirical data: observaions, things that you can actually touch, see and measure ex. High school seniors and what are their outcomes taking a mathemaics course compared to the previous year. How successful an intervenion or research was. Inviing people into lab to do experiment on them. Examining a batch of song lyrics, tv shows, and doing a count for speciic things you can record that are happening. Focus groups: involves a group of people. Researcher situates themselves into a group, also known as paricipant observaion. Achieves that are stored somewhere, travelling to explore those materials. Cross-secional: observe a bunch of people at one ime only able to make statements on that paricular day. Time series: observing diferent people at muliple imes ex.
