SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ath, Medical Error, Ethnography
13 Feb 2017
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Learning to match research methods to the research questions you want to answer. Importance of hammering out a very specific question and defining all of the words in your question. Important: quantitative (numbers, amount, qualitative (how and why) Asking a question (talking to his students) about why they choose certain seats and then making generalizations (organize into categories). Answers cannot stand for all students, but can help you understand the motivations behind choices people make. Many statistics are meant to scare us. It is in the interest of many groups and people to describe social problems in the scariest terms possible. A(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to best, highlighti(cid:374)g (cid:862)s(cid:272)ary (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)ers(cid:863) is how so(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s get (cid:374)oti(cid:272)ed i(cid:374) our society. It makes sense that advocates seeking to draw attention to social problems often find it helpful to accentuate the negative. But according to best, evidence they use to support these far-reaching claims often comes from troubling examples with statistics.
