1 Linear transformations are some combination of the âscaleâ, ârotateâ, âshearâ, and âflipâ tools in Photoshop.  The determinant of a linear transformation is the factor by which the transformation changes the area.
Most social scientists follow these basic steps when conducting research. Sociologists also integrate some different designs and methods to study society and social behavior. Most sociological research involves ethnography, or field work designed to depict the characteristics of a a population as fully as possible. Three popular social research designs (models) are:
The first is that the method is one of the strands of qualitative researchâalong with such other strands as narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography. 6 The second and older stereotype is that the case study method is but one of the designs in quasi-experimental research.