SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Institutional Review Board, Syphilis, Erving Goffman
16 Jun 2018
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Sociology 101
Lecture 6
September 18th, 2017
Readings ( articles 3 and 4)
Promoting Bad Statistics - Joel Best (4)
- how are we operating what we are studying - question everything in data
- ex. how do we define homelessness
- different number of people living with relatives compared to people on the
street
- we trust numbers more than we trust stories
- being transparent about research
- where numbers are actually coming from
- where does the data comes from
Research Ethics
- Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- anywhere we conduct research with humans
- * Informed consent
- what participation entails
- risks and benefits
- completely voluntary
- confidentiality
- written at 8th grade comprehension level
- debriefing - let participants know what research is about
- ex. Tuskegee Syphilis study was major violation of informed consent
Science of Knowing reading (3)
- methodology
- The science of finding out something
- Epistemology - the science of knowing
- how do we know the things we know
- ex. how do we know the earth is not flat, and round
- Variable
- things that can change
- independent variable change other variables
- dependent variables change according to other variables
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Document Summary
How are we operating what we are studying - question everything in data. Different number of people living with relatives compared to people on the street. We trust numbers more than we trust stories. * informed consent risks and benefits completely voluntary confidentiality. Debriefing - let participants know what research is about. Tuskegee syphilis study was major violation of informed consent. How do we know the things we know. Ex. how do we know the earth is not flat, and round. Variable things that can change independent variable change other variables. Dependent variables change according to other variables. Ethnography tells us about the how and why questions. Even when researchers focus their attention on a single case study . Even though we study individuals we don"t really care about individuals, we care about patterns, culture and outliers. Everyone"s putting on a performance two types of performance : cynical and sincere. But there are cynical performances from sincere people too.
