SOCI 1001 Quiz: Reading (p 35-59) QUIZ MATERIAL.pdf
16 May 2012
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Tradition: chicken noodle soup helps a cold it worked for my grandparents. Authority: weak magnets can be used to heal many illnesses i read about it in a newspaper . Experts can be wrong; we tend to think because it is authoritative source that it is correct a walk last night when i saw the accident . Casual observation: the car that hit the cyclist was dark brown. Overgeneralization: if you work hard you can get ahead. Selective observation: - i m right because i can t think of any contrary cases of my parents friends started off poor but are now middle class . Not always true, because there are some people who work hard and are still poor, and vice versa. We want to think we re right, so we ignore any other reasons as to why we would be wrong. Smith is poor even though he works hard, but that s because he has a disability.
