HDF 313 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antoni Patek, Human Conditions, Barter
23 May 2018
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Lecture 1
• Fact – a statement that can be verified and is established with overwhelming evidence
(opposite of myth)
• Value, Opinion, Belief – a statement that is not possible to prove or disprove through
scientific evidence
Studying Family Relationships Methods
Sample Selection
• Population
o All individuals in a group that share a particular characteristic
o Often impossible to find and survey all individuals in the group
▪ Ex: population – every student enrolled in this class
▪ Focus on studying human conditions in US
• Sample
o A group of individuals who represent the entire population
Methods – Surveys
• Used to systematically collect information
• Predetermined questions
o Questionnaires – no deviations from the questions, all set
o Interviews
o Focus groups
Methods – Field Research
• Systematic observation of people in their natural surroundings
• Participant observers
o Researchers interact naturally, but do not reveal their identities as researchers
• Non participant observers
o Researchers study phenomena without being part of the situation
o Ex: not reacting to children
Methods – Secondary Analysis
• Use of data that was collected by someone else
o Historical documents
o Public records
Methods – Experiments
• Examination of cause and effect relationships under controlled conditions
• Individuals assigned by experimenter into one or two or more groups
• Outcomes observed – causes and effect determined
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Lecture 2: Ethics and Politics of Family Research
• Code of Ethics
o Helps protect human research subjects
▪ Data is confidential
▪ Protet partiipat’s idetit
o Helps keep researh hoest
▪ Prevents biased research
o Harms in research
▪ Ask insightful survey – cause emotional distress (rarely happen)
▪ Reveal private information – revealing information can cause
embarrassment, problems, upset
o Best way to protect data is anonymous
o Protect by assigning to ID number then destroy documents and data when study
is completed
o Give consent before doing research
o Benefit of the study outweighs the risk
o Clinical Trial
▪ By participating helps gain information for future patients
▪ Placebo – half of the group is getting or not getting drugs
• Political issues can affect both research agendas and reporting procedures
o Grant funding targeted toward specific diseases
▪ National studies, specific calls for grants
▪ Zilka virus – mosquitoes disease
▪ Alzheimer
▪ Focus on certain issues cause other issues to be ignored, result in no
funding
o Criticism from Congress on use of funds (The Wastebook)
▪ Wastebook – make videos, signs and bring to congress and complain the
waste of money and research
▪ Sheila Patek (Duke Biologist) – studied the main behavior of shrimps and
received funding
• Discovered that shrimps can be used for engineers, military
▪ “eator lakford’s federal fules i goeret spedig
• “tud o seiors’ datig haits – important to study about STD
disease transmitted
• National science foundation
• Silent Shakespeare productions
• National endowment for the arts
• Studying the California Gnatcher bird
• Department of defense
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▪ Strong social support is more beneficial than other health problems
• Liberal Bias
o Ex: push in academia for more gender, ethnicity
o Idea – more different people in research can help collect different data
Lecture 3
What is Family
• A family is – a group of related people living together
o Blood related relative, people who raised us, extended people, those that are
close to you and who we trust the most
• A household – the person who live in a housing unit
o Ex: roommates
Sociological Perspective
• The family deals with reproduction and care and support for children and adults
o Definition of family can be different, varies from person
Has family life in US changed over the past?
• 100 years – yes it has changed (major)
• 60 years – yes
How has it changed?
• Living before marriage
• Same sex marriage
• Much later age of marriage (highly educated, more stable marriage)
• College degree students = less likely to get a divorce
• Marriage now is more of self-fulfillment (people do’t deped o parter uh)
o Economic dependence before, now is independence
Historical Perspectives
• Love as a requirement for marriage is more recent development
o Before – people marry for trading such as trading for farms
o Arrange marriage was common
o Still not necessary for arranged marriages
• Pre-Industrial families – love and commitments were not related
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Lecture 4
Every Generation is the Worst
• Ex: cars can have both advantages and disadvantages
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Document Summary
Lecture 1: fact a statement that can be verified and is established with overwhelming evidence (opposite of myth, value, opinion, belief a statement that is not possible to prove or disprove through scientific evidence. Methods surveys: used to systematically collect information, predetermined questions, questionnaires no deviations from the questions, all set. Methods secondary analysis: use of data that was collected by someone else, historical documents, public records. Methods experiments: examination of cause and effect relationships under controlled conditions, outcomes observed causes and effect determined. Individuals assigned by experimenter into one or two or more groups. Idea more different people in research can help collect different data. Sociological perspective: the family deals with reproduction and care and support for children and adults, definition of family can be different, varies from person. Has family life in us changed over the past: 100 years yes it has changed (major, 60 years yes.
