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What is the sociological six?
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biography
History Culture Institution Conflict |
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Sociological Imagination
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To move beyond your personal troubles to look at public issues.
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Where does Personal troubles occur?
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occur in your own lives and with the people you know.
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What does public issues transcend?
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your immediate relationship
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Soc. Imagination: Living in the city.
Personal trouble? Public issue? |
Personal: Its expensive
Public: urban overcrowding, public transportaion |
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Taking the red pill
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our perception of what i s true and real are filtered through out experiences, cultured background, and the historical period we live in
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ex: the rotation of the earth around the sun
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Idiographic
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seeks fully understanding of the cause of what happened in a single instance... Exhaustive explanation of every possible factors
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Why Miley Cyrus Dance like that at the VMA's?
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Nomothetic
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Seeks to explain a class of situation or event rather than a single one... Focus on a few factors that should relate to the most of the instance, rather than just one
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Why females artist dance sexually?
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concept
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a mental construct that represents some part of the world in simplified form.
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elements of the research process
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Variables
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concepts who values changes
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elements of the research process
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Conceptualization
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specifying the meaning of the concept and variables need to be studied
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elements of the research process
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Operationalization
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determining exactly how we will measure the concepts being examined
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elements of the research process
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measurement
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the process of assigning different values or categories to unit of analysis
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elements of the research process
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hypothesis
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an expected but unconfirmed relationship between 2 or more variables (like a prediction)
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elements of the research process
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Reliabilty
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a matter of whether a particular technique, applied repeatedly, would yield the same results each time
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Measurement quality: 2 dimension
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Validity
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refers to the extent to which an empirical measure adequately reflects the real meaning of the concept
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Measurement quality: 2 dimension
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What are the five types of Research Methods?
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experiments, surveys, ethnography, in-depth interviewing, content analysis
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experiments
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Methods of evaluating causal relationships in which only the concept of interest vary.
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Whats are experiments ideal for?
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establishing causality
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What does experiments relies on?
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a randomly assigned treatment
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Why is generalizability questionable when it comes to experiments?
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Because they often based on small groups
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Define Generalizability
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look up
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Surveys
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Methods of systematically asking prescribed set of questions to a large number of people
-collect info through questionaires |
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Pros and Cons of Surveys
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Not good for victims and criminals
great for generalizing to a larger population hard to establish causality. |
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ethnograpghy
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Methods of directly observing the behavior in question
-hard to generalize because you typically only study small groups |
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what is the ideal of ethnography?
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ideal for studying the social processes that produces relationships among factors as opposed to just studying whether relationships exist
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What is the goal is of ethnography?
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is to see the world through the eyes of the subjects
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in depth interviewing
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collect information through a long, semi-structured interviews.
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strength is that is has an inherent flexibility.
Very hard to generalize to larger populations |
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Content Analysis
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examinations of pre-existing information
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examples of content analysis
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books, official records, images, peoples correspondence
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Pros and cons of content analysis
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pros: unobstructive and cheap, can examine historical processes
cons: the lack of control over have the data are generated |
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