ASSIGNMENT SOCIOLOGY EXERCISE 1 PAGE 50 The operational definition concretises the four housing situations of the working definition. In order to define homelessness in an operational way‚ we identified three domains which constitute a home‚ the absence of which can be taken to delineate homelessness. Having a home can be understood as: having an adequate dwelling (or space) over which a person and his/her family can exercise exclusive possession (physical domain); being able to maintain privacy
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The Milgram experiment The Milgram experiment came about by a Yale University psychologist by the name of Stanley Milgram. The experiment was to test how well the study participants were and the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with what they thought was right. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. Stanley
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The Sociology of Family and Households Key terms and words: Roles - an initial definition of a role is that it represents the way that someone is expected to behave in a particular social situation. Roles‚ therefore‚ are the parts that we play in our relationships with others and this idea is similar to that of an actor playing a part in a play. Conjugal roles - the tasks typically taken up by husband and wife in the household. Primary socialisation - a primary relationship is one in
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beyond. Montgomery‚ AL: Black Belt‚ 1998 Jones‚ J. (1981). Bad Blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment: A tragedy of race and medicine. NY: The Free Press "Miss Evers ’ Boys (TV 1997) - IMDb." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 22 Nov. 2010 President Apologizes at White House for error in Tuskegee case. (five survivors attend as Pres. Bill Clinton Speaks: infamous US government syphilis experiment (Jet 1997)
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ABSTRACT The Stroop experiment focuses on the interference of a person’s reaction time on a given task. Certain tasks can be performed with more accuracy due to the fact that our brain becomes conditioned to react automatically after exposure of the stimuli. In this particular experiment‚ eight-teen college students underwent the Stroop experiment in individualized laboratory rooms. Four students were male and fourteen were females. The experiment helped us examine the horse race model
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Bread Mold Experiment Mold is something that we often take for granted‚ as something that makes us have to throw the bread away or the cheese smell bad. Mold is‚ in fact‚ a fascinating organism which has had many different uses over the years and our lives would not be the same without it. Most of us know that food seems to become moldy more quickly in the summer than in the winter when it is colder. Food in refrigerators seems to keep longer than food left out in the sun. Is this true? Does temperature
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The main focus of this experiment was to find the relationship between temperature and the enzyme activity of amylase. This was achieved by attaining amylase enzyme‚ starch solution and potassium iodide (determines if enzymes hydrolyses the starch solution)‚ water bath and a hot plate. The temperatures used for this experiment were room temperature‚ 37oC‚ 60oC‚ 80oC‚ and 90oC. The hypothesis developed was that as the temperature increased‚ so will enzyme activity. Therefore‚ the ability of the
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Sociology-Family Page 1. Family A family is “a set of people related by blood‚ marriage or some other agreed-upon relationship‚ or adoption‚ who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.” (Schaefer‚ 2009) A family is considered a social institution. This social institution is one that can be applied to all three sociological theories which are functionalism‚ conflict‚ and interactionism. The first sociological theory is functionalism. A functionalism
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is still open to controversy. Does a dose of caffeine heighten one ’s mental performance‚ or does it achieve the opposite? Many experiments have already taken place in order to discover how caffeine effects a person ’s mental performance. In the Radiological Society of America ’s annual conference in December of 2005‚ Florian Koppelstatter reported an experiment in which he used functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI) to determine how coffee effects brain activity. Subjects were then given
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The Afterlife Investigations: The Scole Experiment “Best evidence of life after death ever.” This is what this documentary film is pointing out. Is there really a life after death? Well this film makes me believe more that there is indeed a life after death. However‚ how can scientific evidence explain life after death? Now this film showed me how. The ninety-minute documentary film is about the Scole Experiment‚ which is a five-year investigation into life after death. It is conducted by
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