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| How research is conducted and how you know it is valid |
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| Sampling - probability - nonprobability |
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| Drawing inferences from smaller test group - random - non random (snowball or convinience, people around you) |
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| Analysis - quantitative - qualitative |
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| structured or unstructured, statistical data vs patterns |
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| lists all the reasons for a cause of a condition or event, every idiosynchratic reason |
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| identify a few causal factors that impact a class of conditions or events |
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| Specific to general, data to theory, collect data - find pattern - create theory |
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| General to specific, theory to data, specific hypothesis, find data to test |
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| Pure vs Applied Knowledge |
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| Pure is knowledge driven by theory, applied is not concerned with advancing theory |
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| broad theoretical idea, the way you approach a topic |
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| organizational vs individual |
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| Explanation, how concepts are related |
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| describes how concepts are measured (i.e. crime = breaking the law vs. crime = when people report it) |
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| Philosophical assumptions: name three types and why they can't be tested |
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| ethical, epistemological (what is valid knowledge?), metaphysical (ways of the universe) |
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| a statement that explains how concepts are related |
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| Confirm a proposed theory using data |
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| disproving a proposition by disconfirming the proposition |
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| Voluntary participation: things to do |
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| can't coerce someone to do it, must tell them the risks, must tell them afterwards if it's participant observation |
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| can't connect response back to the participant |
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| know who said what response, cannot reveal it |
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| reviews proposals, whether or not they meet the standards |
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| Three purposes of research: |
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| Exploration, description, explanation |
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| statistical relationship between variables |
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| must be there in order for effect to take place |
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| if clause is there, result guarenteed. Might happen anyway. |
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| Nomothetic Explanation ; three |
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| correlation (relationship between variables), time order (kid's views on gun laws influence parents or vice versa?), nonspurious (correlation must be genuine) |
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| who or what is being studied, groups or individuals or organization or social artifacts |
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| product of person or people |
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| Types of units of analysis |
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| individuals, groups, organizations, social interactions, social artifacts |
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| making individual level assumptions from group data (durkheim and suicides) |
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| explain a particular phenomenon in terms of easier to understand concepts, not wrong but too limited |
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| suggests that all social phenomena can be explained in terms of biological factors |
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| observations of a sample/cross section at one point in time (can't technically determine causation, but easier) |
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| observations over an extended period of time |
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| Three types of longitudal studies |
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| Trend (change in population), cohort (change in specific population), panel (change in same set of people) |
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| Challenges in Longitudal Studies |
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| trend/cohort - must pay attention to sampling, cohort - sampling can be difficult, panel - difficulty retaining same people |
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