REAL TIME CLASS NOTES
Dr Jack's Loft  ©2004

        Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION 
I. Definition of "Sociology"
it is not opinion it is not opinion it is not opinion it is not opinion it is not opinion it is not opinion

 

A. The Sociological Imagination:
 Wright Mills - alternative explanations

  1.science

  2.common sense

  3.social theory

B. The Street Corner
  1.empiricist 

  2.functionalist

  3.existential

  4.phenomonological

  5. levels of reality

  6. positivism vs interpretivism

C. Emile Durkheim and his study on Suicide



  1. manifest vs latent

  2. anomie

  3. eclectic approach

II. Evolution of Sociology
A. 1. Comte

     2. Charles Darwin

     3.  Herbert Spencer

     4. Durkhein and Max Weber

     5. Karl Marx

     6. Charles Horton Cooley

     7. Robert K. Merton


III.  CONTEMPORARY THEORY
A. Functionalism

 

B. Conflict Theory

 

C. Interactionalism

 

D. Feminist

 

E. Contemporay Approaches

 

IV. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A. definition:

B. Problem Statement
  1. operational definition

C.  Classical Experimenta Design 
      1. hypothesis
      2. dependent variable
      3. independent variable
      4. problem with human subjects

D. Collecting Data
  1. sampling

  2. random sample

  3. validity
  4. reliability
E. Research Designs
  1. surveys
  2. ethnography
  3. participant observation

F. EXPERIMENT DESIGN and The Hawthorne Studies:

 

 

 

 

G.Ethics and their considerations...

 

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