HSP3M Unit 1

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HSP3M Unit 1

• What should I study?

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What are the Social Sciences?

• Anthropology the study or the origin, the
  behaviour, the physical, social, and cultural
  development of humans

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What are the Social Sciences?

• Sociology the study of human social behaviour
  and the institutions and organizations that form
  society

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What are the Social Sciences?

• Psychology the study of mental processes and
  human behaviour

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Quantitative vs. Qualitative

• Quantitative
• Numbers
• Measurable
• Uses statistical inference
• WHAT, WHERE, WHEN

• Qualitative
• Relies on reason
• Smaller and more focused samples
• WHY and HOW

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The Incident at OC Transpo

• Pierre Lebrun/Charles Whitman
• Unpopular/Loner
• Anger management problems
• Low self-esteem
• No meaningful relationships with women
• Paranoid/delusional
• Social outcast

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Functionalism

• Functionalism
• Society works in a logical manner and protects
  the interests of its members
• Society is best studied as an organic system like
  the human body

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Suicide

• Egoistic suicide resulted from too little social
  integration. Those individuals who were not
  sufficiently bound to social groups were left
  with little social support or guidance, and
  therefore more likely to take their own life

• Altruistic suicide was the result of too much
  social integration. Self sacrifice was the
  defining trait, where individuals were so
  integrated into social groups that they lost
  sight of their individuality and became willing
  to sacrifice themselves to the group's interests.

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Altruistic or Egoistic?

• In 1963 Buddhist monk Thich Quang Doc burned
  himself to death during a protest against South
  Vietnam President Diem.

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Altruistic or Egoistic?

• Heaven's Gate was a religious cult led by
  Marshall Applewhite who convinced 39 followers to
  commit suicide so their souls could ride on a
  spaceship hidden behind a comet.

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Conflict Theory

• Karl Marx
• Study the social patterns and structures that
  develop as classes compete for scarce resources
• Power/Conflict
• Revolution not Evolution

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Symbolic Interactionism

• Max Weber argued that we act towards people and
  things on the basis of the meaning we assign
  them.

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Cultural Change

• Independent Invention is the process of separate
  cultures simultaneously innovating to find the
  same solution to a problem

• Cultural Diffusion is the spread of ideas and
  innovations independent of migration

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Independent Invention?

• In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev published the first
  effective version of the periodic table of
  elements, unaware that five years earlier John
  Newlands had proposed an identical table.

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3 Schools of Anthropology

• Functionalism
• Founder Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
• Institutions are the key to maintaining the
  global social order
• Fails to consider the effects of historical
  changes on society

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3 Schools of Anthropology

• Structuralism
• Founder Bronislaw Malinowski
• Culture functions to meet the needs of
  individuals rather than society as a whole

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3 Schools of Anthropology

• Cultural Materialism
• Founder Marvin Harris
• Breaks culture down into 3 divisions
• Culture is created to solve the universal
  problems societies face

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Ethical Research

• Napolean Chagnon
• Yanomamo The Fierce People
• Is extreme violence among the Yanomami a cultural
  adaptation or a genetic difference?

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3 Schools of Psychology

• Psychoanalysis
• Developed by Freud to probe the unconscious mind
  and treat patients anxieties and phobias

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3 Schools of Psychology

• Behaviorism
• Focuses on studying observable behavior
• Edward Lee Thorndike
• Law of Effect
• Applied to curriculum

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3 Schools of Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology
• Studies how people perceive their environment,
  learn and remember

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Aversion Therapy

• Controversial
• Exposes patient to a stimulus while subjecting
  them to a form of discomfort
• Stimulus Unpleasant sensation

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Desensitization

• Treatment of phobias
• Repeatedly evoking an emotional response in a
  safe environment so that anxiety becomes
  irrelevant

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Introvert

• Tend to be quiet
• Low-key, deliberate,
• Gain energy when performing solitary activities
• Enjoy intense one-on-one social interactions

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Extrovert

• Tend to be energetic when surrounded by people
• Enthusiastic/Talkative/Assertive
• Tom Cruise is a Jackass
• Im in love!

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What do I study?

• Everything!
• Key concepts (Understand them! Do not memorize
  them.)
• All your notes and assigned readings.
• Hall of Fames
• Social Science Skills and Methods
• Ethics

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Format

• 20 Mix and Match Terms
• 20 Multiple Choice
• 14 Questions a Social Scientist would ask
• Conflict Theory/Symbolic Interactionism/
  Functionalism handout
• Short Answer