SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Research, Participant Observation, Syphilis
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Logical deduction: take a piece of information that we know and use it to arrive at a conclusion about something else. Collective creation of knowledge making contribution to specific subject area. Empirical questions: can be answered through observation and/or measurement. Interpretive questions: may be answered through empirical evidence that supports a particular interpretation. You can never possess the absolute, complete truth. Describe, explain, and evaluate the social world. Intensive interviewing (interviewing people with personal experiences multiple times- analyze words) Capture social life as it is experiences by research participants. Tuskegee syphilis experiment (1932-1972): performed in alabama. About 600 men enrolled in study, about half had syphilis and were not informed. Penicillin cure was created and they did not tell participants. Milgram"s obedience to authority figures experiments (1961): one person reads word pairs while another person recites them back, if they mess up they must receive a shock.
