Chapter 3-Sociological Research

This is a story where a WSU sociologist uses surveys to get her information about Ghana and the result of why and how much domestic violence there are. She has a hypothesis as to why it happens and explains how she uses a vignette technique which is where she asks them about a few hypothetical situations and then surveys their response. I found it to be a good article because its local and simple.
 http://wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=24897





The video has good information but you may want to listen to it on mute the music just does not seem to do the video justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlErpIirKrw




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“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought”-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi  Information on Sociological Research: http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/010/method.html http://www.slideshare.net/edithosb/research-methods-basic-sociology   - This one has interactive slides like a power point. Pretty helpful! My thoughts: This chapter grabbed my interest because it talks about all the ways they get information in order to test hypothesis.  It is very informative and really explains the research that sociologists have to go through in order to gain the information they want to examine.  I was looking at the chapter and saw a lot of correlations between the things they try to answer in the method used and the answers i look for in methods i use to test things in biology.  It really explain the science part of the idea of sociology like hypothesis, variable, random sample, and informed consent.  Those are just a few similar terms and I am a science guy so it keeps my attention when i can compare it to my field.  I think another part of the chapter that caught my interest was how many different ways there are to collect the information.  The chapter talks about the questionnaires, interviews, observations, and participant observation.  There were all sorts of methods and how each on works best for certain situations.  The video i posted talks about all of them and the pro's and con's of each i found it interesting.  Chapter 3 Crossword Please complete the crossword puzzle below 2 9 7 8 5 4 6 1 3 Across: 1. Any abstract characteristic or attribute that can potentially be measured. 3. Getting agreement beforehand to participate from the respondents or subjects after the purposes of the study are explained to them. 4. Gives everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected. 6. Any subset of people of a population. Down: 2. A widely used technique for analyzing the patterns of association between pairs of variables. 5. A prediction or a hunch, a tentative assumption one intends to test. 3. Something that points to or reflects an abstract concept. 7. The overall logic and strategy underlying a research project. 8. A characteristic that can have more than one value or score. 9. The ability to draw conclusions from specific data and to apply them to a broader population.