For Tuesday, 2/28 (SOC 1103)

• Benokraitis (2015), Ch. 3 (‘The Family in Historical Perspective’)

For Friday, 3/3 (SOC 303)

Before

• HW Due: Annotated Bibliography
• Patten (2014), Topic 19 (‘Organizing Literature by Topics’)
• Patten (2014), Topic 20 (‘Evaluating Research Literature’)
• Patten (2014), Topic 21 (‘Considering the History of a Topic’)
• Schutt (2015), Chapter 9
 (‘Quantitative Data Analysis’—skim)
• Schutt (2015), Ch. 14
 (‘Secondary Data Analysis and Big Data’—skim)

During

• Lab: Impact of Question Wording

After

• HW: Reverse Replication Outline (Survey Research)

For Tuesday, 2/28 (SOC 1101)

• Conley (2015), Ch. 9 (‘Race’)

Please pay special attention to the sections entitled ‘The Myth of Race’, ‘The Concept of Race from the Ancients to the Alleles’, ‘Race versus Ethnicity’, and ‘The Importance of Being White’.

For Thursday, 2/23 (SOC 1101)

There is no new reading for Thursday. If you haven’t read Conley (2015), Ch. 2 (‘Methods’) yet, now is your chance to catch up!

As a way of thinking about some common issues in social scientific research, take another listen to the first 1:44 of the radio piece on the ‘myth’ of gun ownership that I played at the end of class. Pause the playback at 1:44, and try to write down any defects you can think of in the Kleck & Gertz study. We’ll listen to the rest of it in class and discuss.

For Thursday, 2/23 (SOC 1103)

Note: There is no class on Tuesday!

• Benokraitis (2015), Ch. 2 (‘Studying the Family’)
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), ‘Evaluating Sources of Information’
• Purdue OWL, ‘Searching the World Wide Web’

For Tuesday, 2/21 (SOC 1101)

• Conley (2015), Ch. 2 (‘Methods’)

For Friday, 2/24 (SOC 303)

Before

• HW Due: None. Finish up the Latent Content Analysis lab and any other outstanding HW!
• Patten (2014), Topic 8 (‘Finding Ideas in the Literature’)
• Patten (2014), Topic 9 (‘Considering a Body of Literature’)
• Patten (2014), Topic 10 (‘Considering Theories’)

During

• Lab: Model Research Proposals, Groups 6-9
• Lab: Manifest Content Analysis

After

• HW: Annotated Bibliography

For Thursday, 2/16 (SOC 1101)

There is no new reading for today, since we didn’t quite get into as much detail as I would have liked on Durkheim and the concept of social facts. But here are a few sections of the textbook that you can read for useful background info:

• Conley (2015), pp. 15-32 (‘The Sociology of Sociology’
• Conley (2015), pp. 38-39 (‘Divisions within Sociology: Microsociology and Macrosociology’)

For Thursday, 2/16 (SOC 1103)

• Benokraitis (2015), Ch. 1 (‘The Changing Family’)

Please focus on Sections 1.1 (‘What Is a Family?’), 1.4 (‘Some Myths About the Family’), and 1.5 (‘Three Perspectives on the Changing Family’).

For Tuesday, 2/14 (SOC 1101)

Tuesdays are the new Thursdays. Hope you enjoyed the snow!