Sociology Research Methods: Crash Course Sociology #4
Today we're talking about how we actually DO sociology. Nicole explains the research method: form a question and a hypothesis, collect data, and analyze that data to contribute to our theories...
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Do you think you’re middle class? If you’re American, there’s a pretty good chance that you do. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2015, 87% of those surveyed identified themselves as middle class. That’s a pretty big middle. But your intuition about what the middle class is – like who it includes, and what constitutes a middle class lifestyle – probably isn’t the full picture. And a lot of questions that sociologists try to answer are questions just like this – questions that you think you know the answer to already. Many a person has played the armchair sociologist at some point in their lives – spouting off about how they think “Society Really Works” because of their own experience. Or the experience of their frien...
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Do you think you’re middle class? If you’re American, there’s a pretty good chance that you do. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2015, 87% of those surveyed identified themselves as middle class. That’s a pretty big middle. But your intuition about what the middle class is – like who it includes, and what constitutes a middle class lifestyle – probably isn’t the full picture. And a lot of questions that sociologists try to answer are questions just like this – questions that you think you know the answer to already. Many a person has played the armchair sociologist at some point in their lives – spouting off about how they think “Society Really Works” because of their own experience. Or the experience of their frien...
