SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Scientific Method, Scientific Control, Aborted
19 Dec 2020
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Experimental methods: social scientific method that comes closest to a controlled experiment. Measure the impact treatment has on people. Example: asks adults to play with toddlers for 30 min, tell some babies are boys, some girls, don"t measure anything about the gender to others. After playing with children, asked to describe the characteristics of the. Findings: these studies find that our perceptions of people are shaped by what toddlers we think the sex is. Quite rare in sociology b/c of 3 problems. Individual: better equipped to test individual level processes, not social processes. More common in psychology for this reason. Can"t treat people in a way that harms them. Impracticality: it takes a lot of time, effort and resources to use experimental methods. Can also be hard to get people to participate, require renumeration sometimes. People participating likely western society, university students which is not necessarily a representative sample. Applying sociological methods (last lecture) to: analyzing missing women.
