SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Impact Assessment
4 Dec 2015
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Socy 210 lecture 1 (sept. 14) part 2. Academic: building fundamental knowledge about the world, how people come together to create social change; rigorous, high scientific standards (policy doesn"t come out of academic research until years later). Applied: tends to look more at a concrete problem such as policy (tends to be fast projects- course of a few months rather than years later- interest of agencies) Evaluation: evaluate a problem, does it achieve its goals (second language programs- are they proven effective?) Test results, satisfaction levels among students, participation, and surveys. Action: research is interested in making a change, introduces new programs or activities (needle exchange) Not using existing policy but introducing new ones to effect social change. Evaluating but also making social change through the research. a. 3. Social impact assessment: looks almost prospectively, to the future, as to what hope a certain policy may offer. Policies for hospitals to deal with mass casualties.
