SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Herbert Mead, Confirmation Bias, Sampling Bias
14 Sep 2016
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Manifest intended to be in the society. Classes proletariat sell labor power to survive. Alienation factory assembly line; no interaction w coworkers; personal disconnect btwn consumer and product. We understand ourselves through whom other people think they are. All three theories can be applied to the same social phenomena. Why do men get paid more than women? (plausible reasons thought of by class) Practicing sociologists use both theories and methods. Unless the other person tells us or shows us otherwise, we won"t know if he/she is part of a subculture. Establish causality btwn independent and dependent variables. Participant observation: participating in an event in order to gather info. Predict the relationship btwn or among variables. Alternative hypothesis: there is no gender discrimination in wages. Laud humphrey"s tearoom study is now considred unethical bc he misrepresented himself as a member of a covert gay community. Found that the gay men he was looking out for had a heterosexual relationship at home.
