Sociology 1025A/B Lecture 1: Methods and Culture
1 Mar 2016
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Goals of sociological research: explore, describe, explain, evaluate, empower. There is no such thing as a minor lapse of. If morality were nothing more than commonsense, then why are there so many ethical disputes and issues in our society: individual interpretation, ethical norms are informal, an action may be legal but unethical or illegal but ethical. The importance of ethics in research: examples of human mistreatment in research. E. g. , stanford prison experiment slide show: www. prisonexp. org: tri-council policy statement (tcps2) Research: physical and psychological harm, illegal acts, violation of trust. Let"s poke a little fun at the research methods. In sociology it sometimes feels as though quantitative or qualitative is an either / or choice. You have to be one or the other i encourage you to keep an open mind for both. May use inductive reasoning or grounded theory: quantitative methods. Count things or test hypotheses to quantify or explain a phenomenon.
