SOC 3020- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
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Sherman & berk- minneapolis domestic violence experiment found arrests deterred future dv more than counseling or leaving house for a few hours. Sources of information about the social world: observation: Inaccurate- when you see something incorrectly; you see or hear something wrong: generalization, reasoning, reevaluation. Resistance to change- clinging to an opinion despite the evidence on the contrary. -uncritical agreement with authority- worrying about what someone else (like your mother) will think if you change your opinion to a phenomenon. Process for developing a social research question: identify. Practical motivations-every think-tank, for-profit research company, etc. , makes money for doing research; ex: clemson gets money when. Professor granberg gets a grant to do research: refine, evaluate: a. ) Theories- logically interrelated set of propositions that helps us make sense of many interrelated phenomena & predict behavior or attitudes that are likely to occur when certain conditions are met limited. Guide the development of the research project 3. )
