The first step in any sociological research project is to
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13%
Collect data
55%
Define the problem
8%
Review previous research
24%
Formulate a hypothesis
Through which type of research technique does a sociologist ensure that data are statistically representative of the population being studied?
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71%
Sampling
9%
Experiments
16%
Ethnography
5%
Control variables
A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey?
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21%
An interview
43%
A questionnaire
20%
Representative samples
16%
Ethnographic techniques
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As part of their commitment to __ neutrality, investigators have an ethical obligation to accept research findings even when the data run counter to their personal views or to widely accepted beliefs.
As part of their commitment to __ neutrality, investigators have an ethical obligation to accept research findings even when the data run counter to their personal views or to widely accepted beliefs.
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__ refers to the degree to which a measure or scale truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
__ refers to the degree to which a measure or scale truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
๐ต Watch | Why is the Hakki Pikki tribal community unhappy with the land given to them? - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/videos/watch-why-is-the-hakki-pikki-tribal-community-unhappy-with-the-land-given-to-them/article67371633.ece
The Hakki Pikkis are traditionally a semi-nomadic tribe of bird catchers and hunters, who settled down in several parts of Karnataka.
In the last 20 years the community left bird catching and hunting, and have started to prepare traditional medicines, especially hair oils. The settlement on the edge of the Bannerghatta National Park has both Hakki Pikki and Iruliga tribals staying here.
In 1962, the Government of Karnataka allotted 350 acres of land for them to sustain themselves through agriculture. But for the longest time, the Forest Department claimed that the tribes were encroachers.
In 1974, the Bannerghatta wooded area was declared as a National Park. This led to the criminalisation of these communities living on the edges of the forest.
The Hindu visited the settlement of around 270 families, and spoke to them about the issues they have with the title deeds which they have received from the Karnataka government.
https://www.thehindu.com/videos/watch-why-is-the-hakki-pikki-tribal-community-unhappy-with-the-land-given-to-them/article67371633.ece
The Hakki Pikkis are traditionally a semi-nomadic tribe of bird catchers and hunters, who settled down in several parts of Karnataka.
In the last 20 years the community left bird catching and hunting, and have started to prepare traditional medicines, especially hair oils. The settlement on the edge of the Bannerghatta National Park has both Hakki Pikki and Iruliga tribals staying here.
In 1962, the Government of Karnataka allotted 350 acres of land for them to sustain themselves through agriculture. But for the longest time, the Forest Department claimed that the tribes were encroachers.
In 1974, the Bannerghatta wooded area was declared as a National Park. This led to the criminalisation of these communities living on the edges of the forest.
The Hindu visited the settlement of around 270 families, and spoke to them about the issues they have with the title deeds which they have received from the Karnataka government.
The Hindu
Watch | Why is the Hakki Pikki tribal community unhappy with the land given to them?
The Hindu visited a Hakki Pikki settlement of around 270 families at Bannerghatta National Park near Bengaluru
๐ FOOD FOR THOUGHT ๐
Why do you think most college students regard binge drinking as a normal rather than a deviant behaviour?
#FoodForThought
Why do you think most college students regard binge drinking as a normal rather than a deviant behaviour?
#FoodForThought
๐ต Margarita with a Straw: Female Sexuality, Same Sex Love, and Disability in India | Economic and Political Weekly
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/margarita-straw-female-sexuality-same-sex-love-and#:~:text=Through%20its%20frequent%20attempts%20of,within%20Margarita%20with%20a%20Straw
Do we identify women with disability as sexual beings? Have films reiterated disability and sexuality as incongruent identities, or has the trend been undergoing a transition? Margarita with a Straw (2014) raised these relevant questions about womenโs disability and sexuality in India, and further identified the extent to which Bollywood has misconstrued identities and glorified femininity by adding to the negativity associated with womenโs disability in India.
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/margarita-straw-female-sexuality-same-sex-love-and#:~:text=Through%20its%20frequent%20attempts%20of,within%20Margarita%20with%20a%20Straw
Do we identify women with disability as sexual beings? Have films reiterated disability and sexuality as incongruent identities, or has the trend been undergoing a transition? Margarita with a Straw (2014) raised these relevant questions about womenโs disability and sexuality in India, and further identified the extent to which Bollywood has misconstrued identities and glorified femininity by adding to the negativity associated with womenโs disability in India.
๐ต Gandhian concept of village development and India's development policy | Gandhi's Views | Articles on and by Mahatma Gandhi
https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/village_development.html
Good governance demands respect for human rights, rule of law, strengthening of democracy, promoting transparency and capacity in public administration. The responsiveness of the state and its institutions to the needs and aspirations of the people, and inclusive citizenship are imperative to good governance. Democracy depends upon the equality of all human beings, their right to participate in social and political transformation and the right to development, to live in dignity. Panchayat Raj is a system and process of good governance. Villages have always been the basic units of administration in India since ancient times. The Gram Sabha can become the cornerstone of the whole Panchayat Raj institutional set-up, thereby the Indian democratic system. So in this paper focus is on Gandhian concept of Panchayat Raj. This is useful to development of India. So in 21st century this concept becomes powerful in the Nation.
Importance of Democratic Decentralization:
Gandhi's concept of democratic decentralization bears the stamp of his passionate belief in non-violence, truth and individual freedom. He calls it Panchayati Raj or village Swaraj. He wants to see each village a little republic, self-sufficient in its vital wants, organically and non-hierarchically linked with the larger spatial bodies and enjoying the maximum freedom of deciding the affairs of the locality. Gandhi wanted political power to be distributed among the villages in India. Gandhi preferred the term โSwarajโ to describe what he called true democracy. This democracy is based upon freedom. Individual freedom in Gandhiโs view, could be maintained only in autonomous, self-reliant communities that offer opportunities to the people for fullest participation.1
https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/village_development.html
Good governance demands respect for human rights, rule of law, strengthening of democracy, promoting transparency and capacity in public administration. The responsiveness of the state and its institutions to the needs and aspirations of the people, and inclusive citizenship are imperative to good governance. Democracy depends upon the equality of all human beings, their right to participate in social and political transformation and the right to development, to live in dignity. Panchayat Raj is a system and process of good governance. Villages have always been the basic units of administration in India since ancient times. The Gram Sabha can become the cornerstone of the whole Panchayat Raj institutional set-up, thereby the Indian democratic system. So in this paper focus is on Gandhian concept of Panchayat Raj. This is useful to development of India. So in 21st century this concept becomes powerful in the Nation.
Importance of Democratic Decentralization:
Gandhi's concept of democratic decentralization bears the stamp of his passionate belief in non-violence, truth and individual freedom. He calls it Panchayati Raj or village Swaraj. He wants to see each village a little republic, self-sufficient in its vital wants, organically and non-hierarchically linked with the larger spatial bodies and enjoying the maximum freedom of deciding the affairs of the locality. Gandhi wanted political power to be distributed among the villages in India. Gandhi preferred the term โSwarajโ to describe what he called true democracy. This democracy is based upon freedom. Individual freedom in Gandhiโs view, could be maintained only in autonomous, self-reliant communities that offer opportunities to the people for fullest participation.1
๐ต 16.1 Sociological Perspectives on War and Terrorism | Social Problems
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-socialproblems/chapter/16-1-sociological-perspectives-on-war-and-terrorism/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-socialproblems/chapter/16-1-sociological-perspectives-on-war-and-terrorism/
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๐ต 4. Introduction to Queering Gender and Sexuality โ Erick Jackaman
https://transingabout.com/trans-studies/queering-gender-sexuality/
What is a queer perspective of gender?
Understanding that gender has multiple meanings eg.
Internal (gender) identity
Outward expressions (of gender)
System of how social life is structured
Gender expressions, norms and identities vary across time, space and culture
The way we experience gender and how gender functions in society is inextricably linked to other aspects of ourselves, such as race, class, disability, age etc.
Gender can be understood as something we โdoโ, rather than something we are โ Candace West and Don Zimmerman
Gender can be understood as โperformativeโ, meaning that it emerges in and through behaviours and interactions rather than those (gendered) behaviours being reflective of an inner gender core โ Judith Butler
Gender can be viewed as โbiopsychosocialโ, that is, continuously understood and (re)produced through interactions between our biological, psychological and social worlds.
Gender is not simply the social counterpart of โbiologicalโ sex.
Rather, a queer perspective would view gender and sex as intrinsically interconnected โ Judith Butler and Anne Fausto-Sterling
Gender is not a binary, but rather encompasses a wide range of expressions, including (but not limited to) femininities, masculinities and non-binary expressions of gender.
#QueerPerspective
https://transingabout.com/trans-studies/queering-gender-sexuality/
What is a queer perspective of gender?
Understanding that gender has multiple meanings eg.
Internal (gender) identity
Outward expressions (of gender)
System of how social life is structured
Gender expressions, norms and identities vary across time, space and culture
The way we experience gender and how gender functions in society is inextricably linked to other aspects of ourselves, such as race, class, disability, age etc.
Gender can be understood as something we โdoโ, rather than something we are โ Candace West and Don Zimmerman
Gender can be understood as โperformativeโ, meaning that it emerges in and through behaviours and interactions rather than those (gendered) behaviours being reflective of an inner gender core โ Judith Butler
Gender can be viewed as โbiopsychosocialโ, that is, continuously understood and (re)produced through interactions between our biological, psychological and social worlds.
Gender is not simply the social counterpart of โbiologicalโ sex.
Rather, a queer perspective would view gender and sex as intrinsically interconnected โ Judith Butler and Anne Fausto-Sterling
Gender is not a binary, but rather encompasses a wide range of expressions, including (but not limited to) femininities, masculinities and non-binary expressions of gender.
#QueerPerspective
๐ FOOD FOR THOUGHT ๐
What would happen if present patterns of migration, both internal and international, reversed themselves? How would your hometown change? What would be the effect on the nation's economy? Would your own life change?
#FoodForThought
What would happen if present patterns of migration, both internal and international, reversed themselves? How would your hometown change? What would be the effect on the nation's economy? Would your own life change?
#FoodForThought
๐ต Overcast Minds : Caste Consciousness and Academic Performance | Economic and Political Weekly
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/19/special-articles/overcast-minds.html
Children from historically disadvantaged castes face systemic hurdles in education in Indiaโill-equipped schools, poorly trained teachers, discriminationโleading to high failure and dropout rates. Children from disadvantaged castes also face subtler psychological impediments. One such impediment is consciousness of negative stereotypes. Via an experiment, this study illustrates how CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS could affect academic performance, and finds that children from disadvantaged castes perform poorly in tests when made aware of their caste and reservation status than otherwise. The study underlines the need for reform in how India implements its reservation policy to narrow some of the inter-caste differences in educational attainment.
Inherited caste identity is known to block the progress of many Indians from historically disadvantaged castes (Thorat and Newman 2009). In the sphere of educationโwhich is critically linked to other life outcomes, such as employment, income, health, and standard of living, disadvantaged castes continue to face hurdles in access to schooling and skill attainment despite remedial affirmative action programmes by the national and state governments.1 Case studies document that schools serving disadvantaged caste communities are poorly staffed, with teachers having inadequate subject knowledge and training (Subramanian 2017). Studies also detail the discrimination children from underprivileged caste groups experience at school, including being segregated during school lunches, denied access to drinking water, subjected to casteist slurs, and asked to do menial tasks seldom asked of pupils from traditionally privileged castes (Balagopalan and Subrahmanian 2003; Nambissan 2009; Subramanian 2017). Children from disadvantaged castes are also known to suffer prejudice within classroomsโwith teachers silencing them, and seating them in the back while reserving front seats for students from traditionally privileged castes (Nambissan 2009).
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/19/special-articles/overcast-minds.html
Children from historically disadvantaged castes face systemic hurdles in education in Indiaโill-equipped schools, poorly trained teachers, discriminationโleading to high failure and dropout rates. Children from disadvantaged castes also face subtler psychological impediments. One such impediment is consciousness of negative stereotypes. Via an experiment, this study illustrates how CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS could affect academic performance, and finds that children from disadvantaged castes perform poorly in tests when made aware of their caste and reservation status than otherwise. The study underlines the need for reform in how India implements its reservation policy to narrow some of the inter-caste differences in educational attainment.
Inherited caste identity is known to block the progress of many Indians from historically disadvantaged castes (Thorat and Newman 2009). In the sphere of educationโwhich is critically linked to other life outcomes, such as employment, income, health, and standard of living, disadvantaged castes continue to face hurdles in access to schooling and skill attainment despite remedial affirmative action programmes by the national and state governments.1 Case studies document that schools serving disadvantaged caste communities are poorly staffed, with teachers having inadequate subject knowledge and training (Subramanian 2017). Studies also detail the discrimination children from underprivileged caste groups experience at school, including being segregated during school lunches, denied access to drinking water, subjected to casteist slurs, and asked to do menial tasks seldom asked of pupils from traditionally privileged castes (Balagopalan and Subrahmanian 2003; Nambissan 2009; Subramanian 2017). Children from disadvantaged castes are also known to suffer prejudice within classroomsโwith teachers silencing them, and seating them in the back while reserving front seats for students from traditionally privileged castes (Nambissan 2009).
Economic and Political Weekly
Overcast Minds : Caste Consciousness and Academic Performance
Children from historically disadvantaged castes face systemic hurdles in education in Indiaโill-equipped schools, poorly trained teachers, discriminationโleading to high failure and dropout rates.
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๐ต QUESTION FOR TODAY
Q. "Sociology without History is rootless and History without Sociology is fruitless." Elaborate. (20M)
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Q. "Sociology without History is rootless and History without Sociology is fruitless." Elaborate. (20M)
Please post your answers scanned in black and white mode as PDFs on @SociologyCivils.
Thank you!
@SociologyTasks
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Unravelling the links between consanguinity and genetic diseases - https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/unravelling-links-consanguinity-genetic-diseases-modern-genomics/article67395655.ece, For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. https://bit.ly/THNewsApp
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Unravelling the links between consanguinity and genetic diseases
Consanguinity is an age-old practice of marrying close relatives, still widely practised worldwide. It has shaped our cultural and genetic destiny, with evidence suggesting ancient civilisations practised it. Scientists use modern tools to quantify relatednessโฆ