SYG-1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, William Fielding Ogburn
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Familiarize yourself with existing research on that topic. Choose one or more research methods: experiment, survey, observation, use of existing resources. Work out the implications of the data you collect. 2 asking and answering sociological questions: historical contexts. In the 1920s a goal developed that sociology as a discipline needed to ground its concepts and theories in facts and data; this was spearheaded in two gures (1) robert park. He was interested in developing theories but wanted them to relate directly to the actual lives of people and to be based on the careful accumulation of evidence about their lives. He argued that sociology needed to become a science the goal he argued was. Not to make the world a better place in which to live or to set forth impressions of life but only to discover new knowledge .
