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Week Two Discussion: Sociological Research

Week Two Discussion: Sociological Research

Q Please post thoughtful responses and comments to the following questions. Watch the video 'Sociological Research' on the Week 2 Videos and read Chapter 2. Sociological Research on the Week 2 Learning Resources. Explain the steps of the sociological research using your own sociological topic. Discuss also your reaction of the sociological research. Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative methods. Give examples of each from the sociological research (not from the Internet examples). You wished to understand a social phenomenon, such as what causes poverty, what kind of research do you think would be necessary? What would be the advantages or disadvantages of asking a large number of people a set of fixed questions about poverty, or alternatively, of interviewing a group of poor people by asking open ended questions? Distinguish between deductive and inductive approaches to research. Provide examples of each from the sociological research (not from the Internet examples). Imagine you are a researcher interested in the effect TV watching has on schoolchildren's grades. Identify independent and dependent variables. How might you go about setting up a design to measure this effect? If you wanted to conduct research that examined the relationship between family background and student alcohol use, what indicators would you use to measure these two variables? Identify independent and dependent variables. How might you design your study? Discuss the role of ethics in social science research. Include in your discussion examples of research that presented ethical dilemmas for the researcher and the importance of human subjects' review committees. Use APA parenthetical citations in your text and include a reference list at the end of your post. When you refer to and/or discuss any resources, you need to include a citation for that source, For more information on APA style, go to: https://sites.umgc.edu/library/libhow/apa_examples.cfm Your initial post should be a minimum of 100-150 words for each discussion, and total 400 - 600 words in length excluding references. Replies at least two classmates' initial posts should be a minimum of 75-100 words in length. This is a basin guideline but you can be flexible if necessary.

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1. Sociologists use a systematic method to study different people, institutions, and societies. For sociological research, the researchers have to follow additional steps to complete an analysis. For instance, if the research topic is what do high school students feel about permanent online classes? I would use different methods to deal with the case in detail. First, I would choose a survey method to collect data from students of other high schools. Being a scientific method, the survey would help to provide answers to the queries of research.