SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanford Prison Experiment, Formal System, Falsifiability

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Karen Kampen

Document Summary

Fundamental concepts and principles pt. 1: what makes something scientific, bias and objectivity, three ways of sociology, variables and relationships. Scientific: approaches to inquiry, ordinary human inquiry we aim to answer what and why to predict future, through common sense as well as beliefs, traditions we inherit lessons from our particular culture; agreed upon. Conspiracies: does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that. Nazi extermination of jews never happened: double negative hard to understand bias, does it seem possible to you that the nazi extermination of the. Jews never happened, or do you feel certain that it happened: easily understood, simply answered, by changing the question to be better interpreted the results changed drastically, e. g. Handwashing: how often do you wash your hands after using a public restroom? , used triangulation, more than one method. Soc-1200: intro to sociology lecture notes: results gotten when they asked people directly vs observing people.