SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Method, Domestic Violence, Cohort Study

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

Document Summary

Tradition: people often reply on tradition for knowledge, often because it is the way things have always been, even if the information is traditional knowledge it can become distorted along the way and no longer be true. How science works: science is what separates social research, social research involves thinking scientifically about the social world and following scientific processes, we examine the meaning of science and how it works. As you go further into your research you may think of something else and what to change a previous step or add in new information. A distinction in how research is used, or between applied and basic research. The purpose of doing research, its goal, to define, explore or explain. How time i incorporated into the study design, and the specific data collection technique used: the dimensions overlap (example: the goal of a study and a data collection technique)