Research Methods
Starts with an idea, then a theory, hypothesis, collecting datta, and analyzing results.
What is a deductive approach?
A social problem that only affects an individual.
What is a personal trouble?
A collection of works that are thought to be foundational to a discipline.
What is canon?
Conducted on Black men in the south where the men were promised treatment for their sickness but never received it as long as the study went on.
What is The Tuskegee Experiement?
The relationship between murder rates and ice scream sales is an example of this.
What is a spurious correlation?
A social problem that affects many people.
What is a public issue?
Marx, Weber, and Durkheim are examples of this.
Who are the big 3 classical theorists?
A study about Black men in Philly conducted by a white woman that created a large controversy on confidentially, insider/outsider relationships, and relationships with participants.
What is Goffman's On the Run?
You need correlation, time order, and ruling out other explanations to establish this.
What is causality.
To make the familiar strange.
What is sociological imagination?
A class-less society would be an example of this.
What is communism?
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
If you are using tweets and instagram posts for your data.
What is an example of a content analysis?
Connecting both personal troubles and public issues.
What is using your sociological imagination?
The mode of subsistence that is seen in contrast to communism.
What is capitalism?
A researcher in a white lab coat would tell participants to electrically shock the other participant who got answers incorrectly. What the participant didn't know is that the other person was an actor and wasn't being shocked.
What is the Milgram experiment?