SOC 310 Lecture 2: Lecture #2Sociological approaches to units of analysis and research questions
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Lecture #2 - sociological approaches to units of analysis and research questions. Sociology is the scientific study of groups, societies, and the social lives of individuals. Why do some students succeed in school while others struggle. How does order emerge from complete lawlessness. Why are musical tastes so strongly patterned by social origin (e. g. , parental education, wealth, and race?) Social heterogeneity and inequality (race, class, gender, age) Social structure (e. g. , class structure; markets; networks) Recognize how personal experiences are shaped by macro-social and historical forces. Quantitative methods use on data that can be represented by, and summarized into, numbers. The analyses are then done statistically/ mathematically. Qualitative methods collect and analyze data that enable rich description in words or images. A mixed-method approach uses more than one method in a single study. (in practice, the term usually means the method uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches) Data from 2,000 age discrimination cases filed in ohio between 1998 and 2003.
