SOCECOL 194W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confirmation Bias, Nomothetic, Class Field Theory
16 Jan 2017
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Quizzes must be taken between wednesday afternoon and sunday, 11 each week. Online activities must be completed and posted on discussion board each week by sunday 11pm. 1) does political affiliation/perspective shape individuals" attitudes about the state"s economic situation? (survey) 2) do overt emotional displays by testifying victims increase the likelihood of jury conviction? (experiment) Overview of problems: agreement knowledge may be flaws and inaccurate due to source biases; experiential knowledge limited, unsystematic, and unique. 5 common errors in making casual observations inaccurate observation (we don"t actually capture what we are seeing; happens a lot) Overgeneralization (an absolutely functional heuristic we use); draw conclusions that are supposed to be made systematically. Taint of ideology and politics (world view; we understand and absorb the world to how we think about the world should be and what we believe; shapes our world view; recognize that in ourselves and minimize the impact)
