SOC 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jargon, Global Gun Cultures, Leading Question

• School: DePaul University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 380
• Professor: Eulalie Laschever

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October 15 asking questions: open questions, advantages, respondents answer in their own terms, ex. Interviewer variation in recording answers: the amount someone is willing to disclose comes down to how well the interviewer built rapport with them. Interviewers identity comes into play here: closed questions our focus in this class, advantages, quicker and easier to complete, better response rate and less missing data, easy to process data. It is pre coded: easy to compare answers. Inter-coder reliability: disadvantages, restrictive range of answers: no spontaneity, difficult to make fixed choice answers exhaustive, respondents may interpret questions differently, types of questions, 1 personal factual questions, ex. How old are you, what is your gender, education level, etc: 2 factual questions about others, ex. Surveying principals at a school about the nature of discipline and punishment of the children, surveying the heads of households: 3 informant factual questions, attitudes, ex. How do you feel about things: beliefs, ex.