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Hsin-Yen Pai
SOAN 190.01
Professor McDuff
June. 12 2013
Critical Thinking Exercise #2: The First Measured Century
1. What type of research method was used in the study of Middletown/Muncie?
According to the video, the research method used in the study of Middletown is surveys. The researchers survey high school students and housewife. And the information would help educators and social scientists understand the changings and the problems in this community the citizen face.
2. Discuss this segment as an example of historical/comparative and longitudinal research.
The clip shows the comparable natural economy of this community. In the beginning, this community was the factory town but some of plants shut down or moved away gradually. The Ball state university and Ball memorial hospital so the service industry replaced the factory town. The unemployment rates swing down from 80% to 3% now.
3. What social conditions do the sociologists in this clip say led to the changes in Middletown/Muncie?
The blue industrial community of this town is replaced by the college town. Therefore, the service industry becomes the major changes in this Middletown. 4. What results of this research seem to be contrary to conventional wisdom or "what everybody knows"?
The convention idea of women is fifty years age. There are few woman workers in the workplace. However, there are more and more females working for themselves or their families. In addition to traditional woman, religion also becomes more wide range compared with the society of fifty years
SOAN 190.01
Professor McDuff
June. 12 2013
Critical Thinking Exercise #2: The First Measured Century
1. What type of research method was used in the study of Middletown/Muncie?
According to the video, the research method used in the study of Middletown is surveys. The researchers survey high school students and housewife. And the information would help educators and social scientists understand the changings and the problems in this community the citizen face.
2. Discuss this segment as an example of historical/comparative and longitudinal research.
The clip shows the comparable natural economy of this community. In the beginning, this community was the factory town but some of plants shut down or moved away gradually. The Ball state university and Ball memorial hospital so the service industry replaced the factory town. The unemployment rates swing down from 80% to 3% now.
3. What social conditions do the sociologists in this clip say led to the changes in Middletown/Muncie?
The blue industrial community of this town is replaced by the college town. Therefore, the service industry becomes the major changes in this Middletown. 4. What results of this research seem to be contrary to conventional wisdom or "what everybody knows"?
The convention idea of women is fifty years age. There are few woman workers in the workplace. However, there are more and more females working for themselves or their families. In addition to traditional woman, religion also becomes more wide range compared with the society of fifty years