SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harriet Martineau, Hawthorne Effect, Participant Observation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Basics of sociological investigation: 1. Be curious, ask questions: belief or faith, expert testimony, simple agreement, science. What"s true now might not be true in the future: we behave off what we think is true, we make decisions based off what we think is true. Two ways to do sociology. **qualitative data is talking to someone about it. Relationships among variables: cause and effect. A relationship in which change in one variable causes changing in another. Independent iv: the variable that causes the change. Methods and theory look in textbook for tutorial: scientific sociology corresponds to the structural functional approach. Interpretive sociology is related to the symbolic interaction approach: critical sociology is linked to the social conflict approach. Interference: a subject under study reacts to the sex of the researcher. Women as methodologists: feminist researchers claim, among women founders of social science, research should focus on women, research should be grounded in women"s experience of subordination, harriet martineau, florence nightingale.