Transcript SEEI: Sociological Research

SEEI: Sociological
Research
9/19/2014
Opener:
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1) What is your group’s approach to sociology/research orientation?
2) Summarize your approach/orientation in your own words.
3) Identify at least one critique of using that approach/orientation.
4) What is one question you still have about your
approach/orientation?
• *Use your textbook*
Monday, 9/22/2014
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Turn in your homework article and reflection (front table)
Grab your group’s poster, marker, books
Continue to work on your SEE-I chart
Prepare for your group’s presentation
• Make sure everyone has a role
• Be familiar with the critiques/flaws with your approach/orientation
• Be ready to address questions from the class
Creating a graphic organizer
• You have 3 theoretical approaches and 3 research orientations
• Create a graphic organizer that links the approaches to the research
orientations—which approach would use each research orientation?
• Write a one sentence blurb for each
• See page 17, 22, or pages 35-36 for graphic organizers in the book
Quiz
• 1) Which RESEARCH ORIENTATION collects data and observable
evidence to understand the world?
Structural Functional Approach
Social Conflict Approach
Race Conflict Approach
Gender Conflict Approach
Symbolic Interaction Approach
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
Quiz
• 2) Which THEORETICAL APPROACH takes a macro-level (big
picture) look at society and focuses on the function that each
person/group plays in society?
Structural Functional Approach
Social Conflict Approach
Race Conflict Approach
Gender Conflict Approach
Symbolic Interaction Approach
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
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• 3) Which THEORETICAL APPROACH has two sub-approaches?
Name the approach and the two approaches that fit under that
umbrella term.
Structural Functional Approach
Social Conflict Approach
Race Conflict Approach
Gender Conflict Approach
Symbolic Interaction Approach
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
Quiz
• 4) Which RESEARCH ORIENTATION attempts to change society
for the better through activism?
Structural Functional Approach
Social Conflict Approach
Race Conflict Approach
Gender Conflict Approach
Symbolic Interaction Approach
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
Quiz
• 5) Which THEORETICAL APPROACH takes on the micro-level
approach (small-scale view) that society is a product of the everyday
interactions of individuals?
Structural Functional Approach
Social Conflict Approach
Race Conflict Approach
Gender Conflict Approach
Symbolic Interaction Approach
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
Quiz
• 6) Which RESEARCH ORIENTATION focuses on discovering the
meaning people attach to their individual social world?
Structural Functional Approach
Social Conflict Approach
Race Conflict Approach
Gender Conflict Approach
Symbolic Interaction Approach
Positivist Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology
Binder Materials—you should have ALL listed:
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Course Syllabus
Song lyrics (Bob Dylan and Beyoncé)
MLKJ newspaper homework
MLKJ Organize Your Claim worksheet
Documentary Notes (Global Racism)
Chapter 1: pages 2-5 worksheet
Origins of Sociology worksheet
Parent Interview homework
• SEEI packet (complete)
• Graphic Organizer from SEEI information
(complete)
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Zimbardo Documentary Notes
Research Methods Worksheet (charts)
Venkatesh Ethnography packet
Helping Experiment Homework
Christmas Article
Christmas rules Venn diagram
Experiment
• Advantages
• Limitations
• Collects quantitative data
• Artificial environment
• Controlled environment
• Bias
• Replicable
Survey
• Advantages
• Limitations
• High response rate
• Lying
• Interview or questionnaire
• People don’t take it seriously
• Can create a detailed survey
• Who responds?
Participant Observation
• Advantages
• Limitations
• Natural environment
• Time consuming
• Real life experiences
• They might not trust you
• Hands-on
• Danger
• Observe for yourself
• Ethical concerns
Existing Sources
• Advantages
• You do not have to conduct new
research
• Inexpensive
• Can take a historical perspective
• Limitations
• No new information can be added
Sociology…
• Seeing the general in the particular
• Seeing the strange in the familiar
• Seeing society in our everyday choices
• Noticing trends and asking questions
Think about the way you or your friends act, speak,
and interact on social media.
What rules exist?
What are the accepted norms of
behavior on Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Snapchat?
What behavior is frowned upon?
Annoying? Unacceptable?
Sociological Approaches
Micro-level (Page 15)
• Symbolic Interaction Approach
Macro-level (Page 15)
• Structural-Functional Approach
• Social Conflict Approach
• Race Conflict Approach
• Gender Conflict Approach
Structural-Functional Approach
• Scenario: A family walks into a restaurant. There are waiters and waitresses,
and many other customers in the restaurant.
• What would a Structural Functionalist say about this scene?
Social Conflict Approach
• Scenario: A family walks into a restaurant. There are waiters and waitresses,
and many other customers in the restaurant.
• What would a sociologist using a Social Conflict Approach say about this
scene?
Symbolic Interaction Approach
• Scenario: A family walks into a restaurant. There are waiters and waitresses,
and many other customers in the restaurant.
• What would a sociologist using a Symbolic Interaction Approach say about
this scene?
Review
• Interpretive Sociology
• Critical Sociology
• Positivist Sociology
Which research method? Why?
• You want to study homelessness in Chicago.
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EXPERIMENT
SURVEY
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
EXISTING SOURCES
Which research method? Why?
• You are wondering how many teens use drugs regularly.
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EXPERIMENT
SURVEY
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
EXISTING SOURCES
Which research method? Why?
• You want to study immigration patterns in many countries around the world,
and the impact on society.
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EXPERIMENT
SURVEY
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
EXISTING SOURCES
Which research method? Why?
• You want to measure how individuals’ music tastes change over time.
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SURVEY
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
EXISTING SOURCES
Which research method? Why?
• You want to test the impact that advertising has on consumers’ choices in
supermarkets.
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SURVEY
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
EXISTING SOURCES
Partner Work
• 1. Why would a sociologist who prefers Positivist Sociology as a research
orientation find value in an EXPERIMENT? How might they use an
experiment?
• 2. Why would a sociologist who prefers to engage in Critical Sociology find
value in an INTERVIEW? How might they use an interview?