SOCIOL 1000 Lecture 3: Sociology Lecture #3: Studying Social Life
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Studying social life: what makes knowledge scientific, standards of scientific knowledge, empirically testable a) find data by observing to define a theory. 2. falsifiable: has to be able to be proved wrong. 3. reproducible: you can"t be the only person to understand, valid, has to be proven to consider it accurate, generalizable a) results have to be general the setting. How does sociology differs from the natural sciences: subjective experience (verstehen, people experience life subjectively. 2. to understand people"s actions we must understand what their acts mean to them a) feminists argue women (1) due to their subservient position in society (2) more aware of the inequalities of gender. 1 (1) women bankers were tested on their productivity and no matter what the researchers. Macon city, al: sample: (1) 600 low-income black men, experimental group: (1) 400 syphilitic men, control group: (1) 200 men without syphilis f)
