Henrietta Lacks: Ironically, this study was conducted at the hospital associated with Johns Hopkins University,
To have the same hospital to establish the code of ethics and conduct this study feels incredibly backwards.
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- Jan 2023
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She discovered the obvious, that it’s almost impossible to get by on minimum wage work. She also experienced and observed attitudes many middle and upper-class people never think about. She witnessed firsthand the treatment of working class employees. She saw the extreme measures people take to make ends meet and to survive.
If anything it feels like this fact has gotten worse and worse as the years go by. A living wage and the minimum wage seem to be growing apart at an excelirating rate.
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Once inside a group, some researchers spend months or even years pretending to be one of the people they are observing. However, as observers, they cannot get too involved. They must keep their purpose in mind and apply the sociological perspective.
Who would have thought that there are undercover sociologists out there.
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Surveys gather different types of information from people. While surveys are not great at capturing the ways people really behave in social situations, they are a great method for discovering how people feel, think, and act—or at least how they say they feel, think, and act.
I always thought that surveys have to be such skewed forms of data because a large portion of the participants usually dont take it seriously or answer truthfully.
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another. Cooking is a science. When you follow a recipe and measure ingredients with a cooking tool, such as a measuring cup, the same results is obtained as long as the cook follows the same recipe and uses the same type of tool. The
Cooking is a science? That is a really cool analogy.
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For example, how do different communities fare in terms of psychological well-being, community cohesiveness, range of vocation, wealth, crime rates, and so on?
Large questions and characteristics of society.
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But humans and their social interactions are so diverse that these interactions can seem impossible to chart or explain.
That is really interesting. How do you quantify such abstract subjects? It must be a reoccurring issue. How do you chart how much interest someone has in a conversation or how much something affected a persons way of thinking.
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