SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 2 Outline
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Chapter 2 outline methodology: theory, proposition, and hypothesis. The result was predicted by the social control theory and only by half of the sociologists. The social control theory won again: second experiment focused on the difference between the rate of wife abuse of unemployed and employed suspects. The labeling theory was right about the unemployed suspects, but the control theory prevailed for the employed suspects: independent and dependent variable, cause and effect, e. g. Sec football valid, happiness research unreliable: descriptive describes everyone, explanatory uses hypothesis and propositions to figure things out (most, evaluation look at results from intervention, arrest and further abuse by husband"s employment status, e. g. Kamo"s katrina survey: survey: most common, but hard to establish causal relationship 60% of, sample and population sample of people from the selected population the entire group that the researcher wants to understand, e. g. Sat louisiana sat scores were not representative to the entire: e. g.
