SOCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Institutional Review Board, Stanford Prison Experiment
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Surveys are questionnaires that are administered face-to-face, by telephone, through the mail, or over the internet to a targeted group of people. Surveys can generate a lot of data from large numbers of people. Surveys use random sampling of the population to generate a sample (a small proportion of the overall group) thus improving the ability to generalize. Testing hypotheses under highly controlled conditions to establish cause and effect. An advantage of the experiment is that is gives the research controls over the independent variables so as to better determine cause and effect. But one of the problems is that the way people act in highly controlled settings is not the way they behave in natural environments. Examples of famous experiments include: philip zimbardo"s stanford prison. Experiment and stanley milgram"s obedience to authority study. Research that compares one set of findings on one society with the same type of findings on other societies.
