How is Sociology Scientific?
What are the major research types? Do you think one is more “scientific” than the others? Why or why not?

Research Design Activity

What is your research question?
What data is needed to answer your research question?
What population are you looking to sample?
How do you sample?
Will the data be generalizable?

Step 1

What are you interested in?
What is the causal relationship?
What is your research question?
Step 2
What type of data will you use?
Is that quantitative or qualitative or mixed?
Why use that data type?
Where would you find this data?
How would you collect it?

Step 3

What is your population?
What is your sample?
How would you get access to this sample?
Is this data generalizable? Why or why not?
Conclusion
What is one thing from this week that you learned that you didn’t know before?
(say something along the lines of me not knowing how widespread sociology was and how many different types of researches are done just to understand society)

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