Collecting Data 2.3

Collecting Data 2.3

1. Scientific Method

   • Importance of reliability & validity
     • Findings can be replicated
     • measurement is accurate
   • Sampling Issues
     • Probability Sampling: select samples to mirror population & reflect characteristics or dynamics
       • Random Sampling: everyone or everything has the same chance of being selected
       • Representative Sampling: make sure characteristics of sample reflect total population (using percentages)
     • Access
       • Hard to get an adicuit number of interviews
       • Have to establish rapport before ethnographic research

2. Sociological Methods

   • Complexity of Comparison With Comparative Historical Methods
   • Complications of Causality With Statistical Methods
   • Dilemmas of Sampling With Interview Methods
   • Challenge of Theory With Ethnographic Methods