SOCI201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Erving Goffman, Leap Year

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

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9/5/17: suicide: can be a social phenomenon, can be considered honorable, group activity (jonestown, heaven"s gate) In weeks following a big suicide , suicide rates go up: deductive reasoning, theory, hypothesis, observation, confirmation. Inductive reasoning: observation, pattern, tentative hypothesis, theory, suicide verdicts are a product of social activity (coroner"s inquest, declaring cause of death. We made it a suicide : death certificate, self-inflicted deaths can be accidental, autoerotic asphyxiation. In 1998, the federal government redefined the bmi range for normal weight. Bmis of 26 and 27 and woman with 26 (about 29 million people) were now officially. Overview: numbers as social constructions, problems with graphs, dissecting authoritative numbers, the bottom line: numbers deserve, critical attention. Taking the story and making it seem larger than it actually is. All statistics are shaped by the answers to these questions. It is important to understand who is producing a number, and why. Sometimes we can suspect that mistakes weren"t accidental.