9/25/25 and 9/30/25

• Pull up to the writing center

• Sociology is a science?

• Symbolic interaction

  • What does it mean to be a self with wearing masks

  • Impression management (judging)

• Roles are the appropriate way to behave with a status

  • Status + conformity = role

• Seminars have more student participation

  • Discussing content as a group

• Lecture is scientific, readings are theoretical

• TAKE NOTES WHEN YOU READ AND START ASAP

9/30

• Lectures are about scientific data and studies

• Social psychology is the study of human behavior and attitudes, and how they’re affected and affect groups

  • Study of human behavior and attitudes

  • Sociological social psych has a greater use of theory and is more scientific

    • Uses scope conditions (context) and is focused on power, status, identity, and roles

  • Psychological social psych

    • Focuses on experiments and scientific, individual research 

• Modes of analysis → person to person, group to person, person to group, group to group

• Individuals have a social consciousness

• Scientific method is a systematic process for evaluating claims about empirical observations and organizing conclusions into cumulative knowledge

• Philosophy of science began with Descartes (deduction), Bacon (induction, experimentation), Hume (science is imperfect, confidence is probabilistic)

  • Popper (falsifiability, theory competition), Hempel (scope matters, little is always true), Kuhn (science is a social process that suppresses creativity), Lakatos (tests are fallible), Toulmin (counter-factual theories are ok)

    • Counter-factual theories can have alibis, alternate ideas, etc

•  Parsimony presents a simple explanation as the best one to define observed facts