SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Design Of Experiments, Relay Race, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Sampson Blair

Document Summary

, principles , and procedures that guides a scientific investigation . Empirical approach - answers questions through systematic collection and analysis of data . Should be open and critique - by good evidence to public debate. Can be compared not everyone starts ur to a relay race - finishes at the same to examine but have a common goal - life . levels of social all. The deductible approach begins with a theory and uses research to test the theory. Inductive approach starts with data collection a theory based on the analysis of the data . and generates. Under the same circumstances the same cause will have the same effect. Variables : any characteristic that can change or differ - for instance from one time to another from ( ifk :[ he!!" Independent variable - one that influences another variable gause) Dependent variable - one that is influenced by another ( effect)