Corporate sociology

THE SOCIAL INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES

Carlos E. Sandoval Posadas Borja González García 2nd L.A.D.E Bilingüe 2009 U.R.J.C VICALVARO Prof: Eduardo Diaz Cano

Table of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents..........................................................................................................2INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................3 METHODOLOGY........................................................................................................4 OBJECTIVES...............................................................................................................5PARADIGMS...............................................................................................................6 1.1.Khun and the paradigms:....................................................................................6 1.2.Neopositivist paradigm:......................................................................................6 1.3.Interpretative paradigm:.....................................................................................7 2.Quantitative and Qualitativeinvestigation:................................................................8 2.1.Quantitative investigation:..................................................................................8 2.2.Qualitative investigation:....................................................................................9 3.Structure of the quantitativeinvestigation:..............................................................12 4.Unit of analysis:.......................................................................................................13 4.1.Personal............................................................................................................13 4.2.Collective..........................................................................................................134.2.1.People.......................................................................................................13 4.2.2.Group-Organization-Institution................................................................13 4.3.Event............................................................................................................134.4.Message.......................................................................................................14 5.Variables:.................................................................................................................15 5.1.Nominal variables........................................................................................15 5.2.Ordinal variables..........................................................................................15 5.3.Cardinalvariables........................................................................................15 BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION

The basis of the work that will be explained in the next pages are about the social investigation techniques; the importance of the role that those techniquestake in history as a way of introduction to the others chapters, the organization of this methods, and the design and the statistical resources. Trying to follow a sociologist role, the work is guided by this idea, and the relevant point that we want to show in this model is understanding this type of investigation; how to analyze and compare the social situations, searching for data, buildinghypothesis, structuring the ideas, studying them, making conclusions, and then building a new theory in order to compare it with the previous one. This topic is not totally complete, we have not mentioned the so called kinds of social investigation, because this is the start of this topic; the introduction of the chapter serves as a positional term, giving the definition and the principal basis that...