Friday, October 3, 2014Studying Deviance! ! - Besharov and Laumann-Billings: Child Abuse Reporting - Official Statistics!! - Laumann et al Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans - Participant observations and field methods!! - Adler: Researching Dealers and Smugglers: Survey!!What are offical statistics?:!! 1. Statistics: numerical data!! 2. Offical: gathered by government oficials or ppl receiving govt money in the course of doing performing normal jobs!! ! - not socyologists looking for data!! 3. Published: in official data bases and reports like FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs)!!1. Offical Statistics: !! 3 Sociological categories of crime:!! ! 1. Property Crime !! ! ! -burglary, arson!! ! 2. Crimes agains the person!! ! ! - robbery, rape, murder, assault!! ! 3. Victimless Crimes!! ! ! - druges, sex, gambling!!! Career of a Crime:!! ! - where we get critical about official statisitics, they can be unreliable!! ! ! - process of noninclusion!! ! 1. Unrecognized: !! ! ! - stolen bike, garfetti, gambling, elderly, something of low value that goes!! ! ! unnoticed!! ! 2. Unreported: common in high power victimizer, low power victim situations!! ! ! - shop lifting, domestic violence, perscription drug abuse, illegal!! ! ! immagrants!! ! 3. Unrecorded: !! ! ! - person who committed the crime is famous or really popular, cop!! ! ! committing a crime, campus sexual assaults, !! Strength and Weeknesses!!!-Strengths:!! ! ! - fast: pre-collected!! ! ! - cheap!! ! ! - longitudinal: over history!! ! ! - no sampling!! ! -Weeknesses:!! ! ! - Validity!! ! ! - Changed and absent categories!! ! ! - Data gathering!1Friday, October 3, 2014! ! ! - Self interpretation!2. Survey Research:!! ex: the Census, high school surveys, sex surveys, other college surveys, etc.!! - The most "classically" scientific of these types of research!!! Four Steps:!! ! 1. Questionnaire!! ! 2. Sampling!! ! ! - probability!! ! ! - convienience!!!3. !!!4. !!3. Participate Oberservation and Field Research:!! - EX: The Adler's research on drug dealers!! - Emersion situation -- undercover type of research !!! Four Features:!! ! - Choose a topic based on your personal biography!! ! - Gaining Entree!! ! - Forging trust and relationships!! ! - Developing Analysis!!!Comparison of Approaches:!! 1. Cost: Survey (high) PO (Low) OS (Free)!! 2. Time: Survey (medium), PO (long), OS (done)!! 3. Approach: Survey (objective), PO (subjective), OS (clerical)!! 4. Generalizability: Survey (high), PO (low), OS (high)!! 5. Accuracy: Survery (medium), PO (high), OS (low)!!! ! ! * PO = Participant Obs. OS = Official