Studying Society Mindmap
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- Studying Society
- The sociological approach
- Society: A group of people who have common interests and a distinctive culture
- Difference between psychologists, journalists and sociologists.
- Psychologists study an individual's personality and aggression. They focus on an individual
- Journalist tend to sensationalise an event and have tight deadlines to meet so they keep it vague and do not study why an event happened very much.
- Norms and values
- Norms: What's considered appropriate by society
- Values are what we believe is important, for example honesty.
- Conflict and Consensus
- Consensus: A general state of agreement between individuals or groups. Conflict:A general state of disagreement between opposing groups
- Feminists: Someone who believes that women should have the same status and opportunities as men.
- Marxists: Believe in the ideas of Karl Marx and see the main divisions of society being the capitalist system which creates social class.
- Social structure
- Ascribes statuses are fixed and assigned at birth. Achieved statuses are earned on the basis of acievemnt/merit/talent.
- Social mobility: Movement between the strata. Open systems: Movement is possible Closed system: Movement isn't possible
- Research
- Secondary Research: Save time and are cheap. Already collected.
- Primary Research: Collected by the sociologists and is more likely to be valid. It is often time consuming and expensive.
- Interviews, questionnairesobservations: covert and overt
- Nature VS nurture
- Feral children who have been brought up by animals adopted their ways such as eating,walking and barking as the animals did.
- Sampling Methods
- Random Sampling: Randomly picks people. For large populations it's the best chance of an unbiased representative sample.
- Stratified Sampling: Representative of the population
- Snowball Sampling
- Only works when there's a sampling frame.
- The sociological approach
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