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Nomothetic Study in Psychology and Social Science Data
In contrast to a social scientist doing an ideographic study, where one case in is studied, a nomothetic approach is to take a number of similar cases and to compare them. This particular research study concerns lynching in the Southern states of America, comparing the gender and race of individuals to determine which groups were the most persecuted between the period of 1882-1930 descriptive summary of your research:
This ideographic study was a historical approach to data, attempting to understand the psychology of a particular period of American history through a statistical lens was conducted by Stewart Tolnay and E.M. Beck in 1995 and recorded in their book A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930.
Introduction:
Thus, the reason for the study was to determine the primary identity of those who were the subject of lynchings with the purpose of showing that African-American males were disproportionately targeted for this method of retributive mob justice.
Method:
The method of the study was covert, involving an analysis of historical transcripts, burial transcripts, interviews, and police...
It was covert in the sense that it occurred 'after the fact, rather than during the period described, and thus the participants could have no knowledge that their actions and subsequent victimization was being studied.
Participant or Non-participant:
The participants were not aware that they were being studied, and the historical data collected, again, as it was retrospective, did not include the subject's consent, thus the taker could not be a participant involved in the process of either consciously constructing or disseminating the study, much less being directly involved in the (illegal) actions.
Clear description of subjects and criteria for inclusion
Subjects were those whom were crime victims illegally made the target of mob violence whose bodies could be conclusively identified as such, and were killed and accused of crimes not by law, but justice rendered by said victims at "the hands of persons unknown," as perpetrators of such violent actions were often referred to.
Number of subjects included
2, 805, including males and females of both races and those victims whose race was labeled 'unknown'.
When & Where observations…
Works Cited
Ideographic vs. Nomothetic Explanations." Retrieved on April 25, 2004 at http://geography.unco.edu/department/faculty/DUNN/Social%20Science%20%20300/IDeo%20vs%20Nomo.pdf
Tolnay and E.M. Beck. 1995. A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings. 1882-1930
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