SOC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Culture Shock, Ethnocentrism, William Graham Sumner
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Case study : a study of single event, situation, or individual. Example: chicago heatwave, july 12-15 1995: secondary analysis. Secondary analysis: the analysis of data that have been collected by other researchers. Example: the general social survey (gss) is a sociological survey used to collect data on demographic characteristics and attitudes of residents of the us. The survey is conducted face-to- face with an in-person interview by the national opinion. Research center at the university of chicago, of adults (18+) in randomly selected households: analysis of documents, experiments. Natural experiments: natural experiments involves the study of human behavior in extraordinary situations created without researchers" intervention. Examples: three-mile island (1979, chernobyl (1986, earthquakes/hurricanes/tornados. Includes language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next . Society is people interacting within a certain territory. The last thing a fish would notice is water.
