seei: sociological research

SEEI: Sociological Research

9/19/2014

Opener:

• 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

• 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 ApproachPositivist SociologySocial Conflict Approach Interpretive SociologyRace Conflict Approach Critical SociologyGender Conflict ApproachSymbolic Interaction Approach

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• 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?


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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.


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• 4) Which RESEARCH ORIENTATION attempts to change society for the better through activism?


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• 5) Which THEORETICAL APPROACH takes on the micro-level approach (small-scale view) that society is a product of the everyday interactions of individuals?


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• 6) Which RESEARCH ORIENTATION focuses on discovering the meaning people attach to their individual social world?


Binder Materials—you should have ALL listed:

• 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)

• Zimbardo Documentary Notes

• Research Methods Worksheet (charts)

• Venkatesh Ethnography packet

• Helping Experiment Homework

• Christmas Article

• Christmas rules Venn diagram

Experiment

• Advantages• Collects quantitative data

• Controlled environment

• Replicable

• Limitations• Artificial environment

• Bias

Survey

• Advantages• High response rate

• Interview or questionnaire

• Can create a detailed survey

• Limitations• Lying

• People don’t take it seriously

• Who responds?

Participant Observation

• Advantages• Natural environment

• Real life experiences

• Hands-on

• Observe for yourself

• Limitations• Time consuming

• They might not trust you

• Danger

• 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


• What would a sociologist using a Social Conflict Approach say about this scene?

Symbolic Interaction Approach


• 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.

• EXPERIMENT

• SURVEY

• PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

• EXISTING SOURCES


• You are wondering how many teens use drugs regularly.

• EXPERIMENT

• SURVEY




• You want to study immigration patterns in many countries around the world, and the impact on society.

• EXPERIMENT

• SURVEY




• You want to measure how individuals’ music tastes change over time.

• EXPERIMENT

• SURVEY




• You want to test the impact that advertising has on consumers’ choices in supermarkets.

• EXPERIMENT

• SURVEY



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?

seei: sociological research

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