SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Historical Sociology, Ethnocentrism, Informed Consent
6 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Tracy chapman"s revolution : marxist theory working class developing a class consciousness and revolting the owning class. Aretha franklin my country tis of thee : reinforce social order. Gary jules mad world : symbolic interactionalist through non-verbal actions, facial expressions. Experiments: takes place in a lab setting, control group, limitations: Artificial environment- doesn"t show what happens in real life. Hawthorne effect behavior changes when we are being watched. Not applicable to all things that sociologists want to study. Replicating a positivist approach to research (not conductive to rapport building; subject rather than participant) People could be dishonest when filling out a survey. Data is limited to what is on the paper. Observatory studies: researcher is trying to understand a social group and is spending time with that social group in that setting, participation may vary, limitations: Low reliability: another researcher should be able to replicate any data collected (research) Generalizability: whether the results can be generalizable to the community.
