SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Refugees Of The Syrian Civil War, Stanford Prison Experiment, List Of Universities In Canada

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: Zeina Abou- Rizk

Document Summary

Social sciences aim to study society and to study the ways in which people behave, aim to study the ways in which people influence their social world and how their social world influences them. Searching for, compiling and gathering knowledge or info on a subject. Examples of research studies in the social science: Exploring the experiences of african american experience in low income neighborhoods in an american city. Exploring the impact of safe injection sites in downtown vancouver and the presence of hiv in men. The experiences of youth diagnosed with mental health disorders in canadian prisons. A historical study in the times of tribes and the decline of individualism. Understanding the relationship between the working class and smoking sensations. Establishing whether or not retirement is linked to the increase in rates in depression. Understanding the impact of technologies in canadian universities. Qualitative: statistical models and theories in order to develop and refine scientific knowledge.