Friday September 14th 2018

Today in class we watched a video about sociological investigation.

Li-Chin gave us these examples: In the academic research world, people with integrity want to make a issue or problem more objective. When you do research for example how are college students using social media? You can conduct a literature review, you go to a four year college your professor will tell you to do your literature review! Literature review is a very important step. When you go to find a job you research the company you are applying for what kind of reputation and what types of promotion do they have and what type of culture does the company have?

Three terms
Interpretive Sociology:The study of society that focuses on the meanings people attach to their social world.
Critical Sociology:The study of society that focuses on the need for social change.
Experiment:Research method for investigating cause and effect under highly controlled condition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhK-iEyXYA
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 about society.

One thing I can do to benefit myself and society is to be more consciously aware of what I post on Facebook and what effect it may have.

One thing that I could do to affect myself and society in a negative way would be to promote or post things on Facebook that could have a negative on society such as fake news.

Society could affect me in a positive way if the news presented more positive stories.

Society could influence me in a negative way if the new stayed on track with its fear based stories.

Cultural Experience

In 2007 I went to Italy for the entire month of August. At the time I was dating a person that was born  and raised in Sicily. He moved to the united states when he was 19. He had a very heavy accent. There were many cultural differences. I loved it. The society there is very relaxed. They don’t take certain things so seriously such as working 40 hours a week. When I was there you would wake up and eat a small breakfast and you would go about your day until about 1 pm and you would go home and relax, maybe take a nap and then about 4pm you go back and continue your day. Everything is in military time so I got to learn that. The cars and the roads are tiny! Some of their roads look more like sidewalks! The society there is very rich in Catholicism and very family oriented.