SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Group Dynamics, Homicide, Online Dating Service
4 Dec 2015
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Socy 210 lecture 1 (sept. 14) part 1. Social science research and sorts of questions you will be able to address. Main reason is that we are interested to learn about social behavior of the world: Enables to investigate further than hunches or to investigate preconceived ideas about people. Cognitive biases, how people arrive to judgments; questions we may investigate beyond. Tries to investigate questions in a systematic way, suing planned research enterprise; systemically sample, collect cases, and sample data that are appropriate to the questions we are asking. Authority: to rely on authority/authoritative source (teachers, experts, parents, internet for. However, may overestimate their judgments or they speak on topics they know little about; misuse of authority/information. Tradition: rely on traditions of how we know things: accept something as truth because it"s always been that way. have changed overtime. Traditions we hold may influence how we think social processes work, however these may.
