SOCIOL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Norm (Social), Dependent And Independent Variables, Ethnography
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Social science = combines the insight of humanities (can involve subjective interpretations) with rigorous science (also follows procedures to discover the truth) The social nature of research research is a social process affects what we know. Academic community (site of most social research) = social includes hierarchies, fads, communities, ways of interacting. Ucla is a research university focus on research in terms of discovering new knowledge, but also in terms of what is taught. When reading a book or article, at the beginning = acknowledgments. Cultural studies (values, norms, meanings) = more interpretive. Different approaches to the relationship of theory & evidence. Ex. deviance (behavior outside the social norm) like poverty, crime, genius, homelessness. Derkheim - when we punish deviant people, we are firming the norms. Methodologies involved in answering these very different questions might be very that they violated (deviants have positive function in society) different.
