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LET - Social Studies Trivial Notes
LET - Social Studies Trivial Notes
Personalities
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1. Longitudinal Study - researchers repeatedly examine the same individuals to detect any changes
that might occur over a period of time.
(e.g. public sentiments for gays/lesbians from 1960s to 2000s)
2. Cohort Study (C-milar) – a type of longitudinal research; a particular group of subjects (cohorts)
who do not change over course of study.
(e.g. study on similar Christian groups’ kinds of worships)
3. Trend Study – also called time-series study: same variable is studied in different samples from a
population (whose number may change) at different time points.
(e.g. study on corruption of government official in different regimes)
Study Sampling
1. Typology – used to classify observations in terms of attributes
Ex. Classify newspapers as pro-administration or pro-opposition
2. Probability Sampling – used in selecting large representatives for social research
Ex. Election poll ranking
3. Judgmental sampling – used in subset of a large population that can show meaningful result
Ex. interviewing some people at a rally
4. Snowball sampling – used in a few members of a population
Ex. Migrant workers you meet at the airport
5. Quota sampling – used in a proportion of a population by use of matrix
Ex. Interviewing a few people who meet characteristics of being non-religious
First world (Western Bloc) - refers to the highly developed industrialized nations often
considered the westernized countries of the world (ex. USA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, UK, FRANCE,
GERMANY)
Second world (Eastern Bloc) - industrial socialist states that were under the influence of the
Soviet Union. (ex. Russia, China, Vietnam)
Third World (Non-Aligned Movement) - define countries that remained non-aligned with either
NATO or the Warsaw Pact; developing or least developed countries (ex. India, Yugoslavia,
Philippines)
Fourth world - Sub-populations socially excluded from global society, such as uncontacted
peoples; Hunter-gatherer, nomadic, pastoral, and some subsistence farming peoples living
beyond the modern industrial norm; Sub-populations existing in a First World country, but with
the living standards of those of a Third World.
Acculturation - occurs when the minority culture changes but is still able to retain unique
cultural markers of language, food and customs.
Assimilation - the majority culture is changed as well as the minority culture.
Enculturation - the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by
a person, another culture, etc.
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