SOC 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homophobia, Design Of Experiments
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Academic peer-reviewed article as defined by the uw library system. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edition. Homophobia used to be defined as a mental disorder in the dsm. Mental disorders defined as deviant behavior" by sociologists. Adhd disorder diagnoses have greatly increased recently. Society has changed (where more people actually have adhd) Sociology of mental illness (a direction of sociology) See movie one flew over the cuckoo"s nest . Studies percentage of people participating in each behavior. Randomization (of sample, to have equivalent groups) Treatment (diff. for control and experimental groups). Circumstances under which questionnaires are administered can affect results. Ask same question repeatedly, but rephrased, to minimize yay-sayer, nay-sayer effect. Nay-sayer: will disagree with statements in questionaire more often than is actually true. Yay-sayer: will agree with questionnaire inquiries more often than is accurate. Good-subject effect: subject will attempt to assume what the researchers would want him to answer.
