SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Altruistic Suicide, Anomie, Operationalization
29 Dec 2017
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Status sets and role sets: page 7-12 sle. Hawthorne effect experiment, survey research, participant observation. Un-obtrusive measures devices that do not require the cooperation of research subjects and as such do not. Subjects do not even know they are being observed. But each research approach has strengths too. You can observe if people are lying or not. In triangulation, one employs multiple approaches so the weaknesses of one are balanced out with the strengths of the other. Classic study that employs an objective de nition of the social. Seen as positivistic in approach (comte and durkheim) Durkheim social facts sociology more philosophy than science biology darwin (natural selection) psychology wundt (father of experimental psychology) Durkheim tried to make social facts observable, at least in their consequences. Psychological consequence would be suicide it looks like the ultimate psychological fact. Rst looked at the existing theory: suicide is a result of mental illness (psychology)
