Final requirement - Sociological paper -

Sociological paper is the last requirement for this sociology class. But it does not mean really the "last". I will give you small assignment for coming week.
I simply want to inform you this earlier since we won't have much classes on September.
As you know, we won't have classes during Intramural and Penafrancia, which made me sad :(

You know what is the "sociological paper". I won't discuss here what does it mean. Simply put, it is "human" related action.

Examples of possible topics:

Littering, Street Children, Teacher and student relationship and so on...

** I strongly recommend that topic must be related to your daily life or you observe which made you wonder.

Contents: You can read the assigned reading for the session of social research.
If I can mention, I will say the following; 

1) Addressing issue(s)

2) Justification of #1

3) Hypothesis 

4) Methodology 

5) Result

6) Conclusion

Deadline of submission: Each class has different date so, I won't post here to avoid confusion. 

Format: Free (Be creative) .It is up to you how to present your research. 

I also accept the group work. But I accept the number which is maxim three (3) persons in one (1) group.

STRICTLY NO PLAGIARISM 

Please feel free to ask if you have any questions and qualification. 

My consultation time: 

MWF 1:30- 2:30

TTH 2:30-4:30

Links of documentary - You can watch them ! -

These are documentaries which related to our class discussion. Unfortunately, we can not watch them together during class hour. But I recommend you to watch them.

101 East - Saving Mary Jane
With just minutes to spare, Filipina Mary Jane Veloso escaped death by an Indonesian firing squad that executed eight other foreigners found guilty of drug trafficking.
Source: Al Jazeera

The Slum - Episode 3: Storm RisingIt is one of the stories of the series of documentary. This story is about people life and the storm which kills people and destroys their life.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2015/09/dalit-muslims-india-150902080746653.html

Lecture note - Social structure and Social control 1

1. Social Interaction and Reality

•Social Structure: The product of human agency, social structures express the fact that what people intend should never be confused with what results.

  - The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology P587

Social structure refers to the way society is organized into predictable relationships.

Q. How do we define our social reality?

People can reconstruct the social reality through: 

- a process of internal change

- taking a different view of everyday behavior 

- negotiation 

2. Elements of Social Structure

Examine social predictable social relationships 

From the following five elements

- Status
- Social role
- Groups
- Social Networks

- Social Institutions 

Status 

Status refers to any of the socially defined positions within a large group or society.

A person holds more than one status simultaneously.

e.g. president, daughter, student, neighbor

Ascribed Status:

Achieved Status:

Master Status:

- is given by others 

- feel it as most important 

- can be based on any status It shapes person’s life! (positive either negative)

- can be an element to your identity that others would not realize simply by looking at you

- come with sense of prestige. The consensus from the community around them that a status is to be desired. 

- on the other hand, when a status is seen as undesirable, the status may be stigmatized.

- does not coordinate with persons 

Q. In what case, ascribed status become an obstacle of gaining certain achieved status? 

3. The Role of Socialization
Social Roles is sets of expectations for people who occupy a given status.

Role Conflict:
Role conflict is the challenge of occupying two social positions simultaneously.

Role Strain:
Role strain describes the difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.

Role Exit:
Role Exit describes the process of disengagement from a role that is central to one’s identity, and the establishment of a new role.

Group(s):
is any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with each other on a regular basis.
Every society is composed of many groups in which daily social interaction takes place.
include those groups who interact electronically.

Reference:

• Schaefer, Richard T. 2004. Sociology, 9th edition New York: McGraw Hill, Inc.

Survey on students taking subjects under the Social Sciences Department

Kindly open the link, download and print the file here. 

Follow the instructions in the survey form, accomplish it and submit on or before 20 August, Thursday. 

Dios mabalos po!

Lecture note - research method - Surveys

Survey

• Tool for measuring attitudes and orientations  in a large population

• Best method available to collect original data for describing a population too large to observe directly

Non-probability sampling – for obtaining information about specific groups

・Purposive / judgemental sampling

e.g. researching cancer patient 

・Snowball sampling

e.g. researching gang group, underground organization, terrorist organization..

・Quota sampling : the researcher selects sample from some fixed quota

When it is difficult to conduct probability sampling or it has no meaning to select respondent randomly.

Probability sampling

• Primary method of selecting large, representative samples

• Provide useful descriptions of the total population

• Sample of individuals from a population containing essentially the same variations that exist in the population

•Representativeness – if the aggregate characteristics of the sample closely approximate those same aggregate characteristics in the population

• Population – aggregation of elements from which the sample is selected

• Sample – selected element or respondent

• Sampling bias – those selected are not typical or representative of the larger population they have been chosen from

Questionnaire

Operationalization – measurement

> validity – what we intend to measure

> reliability – extent to which measures give consistent results

Open-ended questions – respondents provide answers

Close-ended questions – respondents elect an answer from the list of options

Make items clear – “Do you agree with the peace agreement?”

Make relevant questions Answers should match the questions and set of options – “Are you satisfied with Ateneo education?” “barely, sometimes, often, very”

Answers should be mutually exclusive – “How often do you study?” “everyday, everynight, every weekend, once a week, more than once a week, monthly, never”

NO double-barreled questions –

“Do you think that K-12 will make our students globally competitive and our education standards globally at par?”

NO questions with possibly different standards – “Do you think that students today are liberal?”

NO leading questions – “Due to changing times, do you agree that government policies must adapt to the changes?”

NO assuming questions – “How often do you go out with your gf/bf?”

NO difficult words - Embryonic Stem Cell

NO negative questions – “Do you NOT agree..”

NO ambiguity - e.g. Which one you support, big government or small government?