SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: External Validity, Internal Validity, Scientific Control
2 Nov 2017
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The stanford prison experiment: application of concepts such status and role, ethical and methodological issues, real world applicability. What makes something real : social construction of reality: the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction, other direction of positivism, saying that reality depends on who is looking at it and defining it, eg. Master status: has exceptional importance for social identity, often shaping a person"s entire life, tends to override everything else, can be achieved or ascribed, eg. Race makes people see you as that one thing more than anything else: eg. Role: a behaviour of someone who holds a particular status: eg. 819 wanted to leave but then all the prisoners said he did a bad thing, and so he said he wanted to go back. Eventually he left new person came into a mad house. Important: they could not hit the prisoners** , they dehumanized them without physical abuse: showing words are incredibly powerfull.
