SOC202H1 Lecture Notes - Critical Thinking, Null Hypothesis, Thought Experiment
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First 3 classes just to get class engaged and interested. Sociology of mental health will be used to bring interest. Samples: age of anxiety said in the new york times. Summarizing data to bring a narrative, a story. But in reality both compliment each other. Stats are concept driven such as mental health, consumerism. We apply hard stats to non-concrete concepts. Sub level symptoms, not enough to be diagnosed. It is difficult to operationalize anxiety with symptoms because the symptoms are correlated with other disorders such as depression. It is hard to operationalize anxiety without operationalizing depression at the same time. Example: the category of (all) in in the past month, how often have you felt anxious or tense: All category can be asked in more detail. If you do follow-up interviews, people are going to drop out. Understand and be aware, that standards make the sample less representative of the real population. Most people drop off at 20 min.
