SOC100H5 Chapter Notes -The Sociological Imagination, Altruistic Suicide, Erving Goffman
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Chapter 1: a sociological compass. Sociology - > the systematic study of human behaviour in social context. Values - > ideas about what is good and bad, right and wrong. Social structures - > relatively stable patterns of social relations. Sociological imagination - > the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and socials structure. Research - > the process of systematically observing reality to assess the validity of a theory. Experiment - > a carefully controlled artificial situation that allows researchers to isolate hypothesized causes and measure their effects precisely. Variable - > a concept that can take on more than one value. Randomization - > in an experiment, assigning individuals to groups by chance processes. Dependent variable - > the presumed effect in a cause- and effect relationships. Experimental group - > the group that is exposed to the independent variable in an experiment. The sociological explanation of suicide.