What is Sociology?
This is the definition of sociology
What is the scientific study of society, social institutions and human interactions in social spaces.
These are two broad methods of study in sociology?
Quantitative
Qualitative
These four agents are considered primary socializing agents:
What is family, peers, mass media, and school
What is a scholar-practitioner?
Is someone who uses their skills and knowledge to inform their practice n the world. Use methods of research to systematically inquire into and inform your "practice".
Ethnography
Ethnography is a descriptive study of a particular human society or the process of making such a study. Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirely on fieldwork and requires the complete immersion of the anthropologist in the culture and everyday life of the people who are the subject of his study.
What makes human beings social creatures?
We live in inter-dependent social groups
We construct communities, societies, institutions,
We construct social institutions
Our brains function to social interaction
We learn from each other
What are some methods used for Qualitative Studies?
Action Research
Case Study
Narrative
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
Historical
Ethnography
In the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning SOTL video they outline 3 different "ways of knowing". What are these ways of knowing.
Cognitive (mind)
Affective (emotions)
Kinetic (body)
What is the epistemological stance for many scholar-practitioners?
You can best know the world by being a part of it. You can know from your "lived experience".
Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is an alternative approach of studying and understanding the social; it is an alternative sociology. IE explores the social relations that structure people's everyday lives, specifically by looking at the ways that people interact with one another in the context of social institutions (school, marriage, work, for example) and understanding how those interactions are institutionalized. (Wikipedia definition)
Epistemology is the study of how we know!
Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
This is the difference between a hypothesis and theory
What is....the hypothesis is a prediction of what will happen, and your theory is related ideas that help to describe the world (or your hypothesis) in some way.
How does the brain influence humans as social beings?
Networks in the brain mirror human connections.
Our brain is connected with other human beings.
All of our systems, institutions, creations are a result of the brain capacity of humans.
What is values free social science?
Assumes the researcher can be "objective". And strives to be free of "bias"
Is this possible?
What is ontology?
Ontology is the study of how we are or the study of the nature of being.
2. a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them.
If a researcher wants to analyze social behaviors as documented in past records, they will be using this type of research method
What is archival research
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
The Hawthorne Effect occurs when individuals adjust their behaviour as a result of being watched or observed. For instance, employees may work harder and more diligently knowing their manager is closely watching, or children behave better because they are being watched by their parents.
What is researcher bias and why is it necessary to recognize it?
Research bias, also called experimenter bias, is a process where the scientists performing the research influence the results, in order to portray a certain outcome.
1. Values free Social science - You can best know the world by being separate from it.
2. Scholar / Practitioner - You can best know the world by being a part of it. You can know from your "lived experience".
What are some types of quantitative research methods?
Descriptive
Cross-Sectional
Quasi-Experimental
Causal comparative
Meta-analysis
Cohort
Longitudinal
This theory says that we define ourselves in terms of multiple domains that are distinct from one another.
What is self-complexity theory
What are some forms of research bias?