ECON 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Conflict, Social Change, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: McGill University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 208
• Professor: El- Attar Mayssun

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Latent function: unconscious, or unintended functions that may reflect hidden purposes of an institutions ex. Universities social relationships and network when you go to universities meet people make friendship even relationships. Inspired: critical social theorists, feminists theorists, anti- racist theorists, queer theorists, disability studyetc: feminist perspectives. Erving goffman he said its interesting to observe people in their everyday lives its like a theater. In these micro situation involving groups: george heret med 1863-1931, micro level of sociology. If we observed facial expression are actually produced by a larger aspect of society how you dress: observed smiles, frowns peoples everyday reactions. Chapter 2: sociological research: why do sociological research. Americas national eating disorders/ mothers of east los. Just because there is a correlations does mean there is a causation people who watch news are less intelligent than people who read: 4. Research design how will the data be collected / analyzed ; survey, observation, experiments, existing sources.