📅 Friday, May 10th, 2024

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

— Woodrow Wilson

ECS154A Lecture: midterm 1 (no notes)

Time Crunch Pro Max

SOC001 Discussion:

research method

  • survey
  • interview
  • focus group
  • oral history
  • participant observation
  • observation of public behavior
  • analysis of existing data

data sampling design

  • cross sectional: snapshot in time
  • longitudinal: data over time
  • panel study: same people over time
  • cohort study: population of same age/generation
  • non-representative sample: snowball / convenience samples (note: correlation is not causality)

research approach (?)

  • deductive (general to particular)
  • inductive (particular to general)

participation assignment: design a study