Download HSP3M Unit 1

HSP3M Unit 1
What should I study?
What are the Social Sciences?
• Anthropology – the
study or the origin, the
behaviour, the
physical, social, and
cultural development
of humans
What are the Social Sciences?
• Sociology – the study
of human social
behaviour and the
institutions and
organizations that
form society
What are the Social Sciences?
• Psychology – the
study of mental
processes and human
behaviour
Quantitative vs. Qualitative
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Quantitative
Numbers
Measurable
Uses statistical
inference
• WHAT, WHERE,
WHEN
• Qualitative
• Relies on reason
• Smaller and more
focused samples
• WHY and HOW
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
Schools of Thought- Sociology
1. 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
Suicide - Durkheim
• 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
• Anomic suicide – can’t
cope with rapid change
• 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.
Altruistic or Egoistic?
In 1963 Buddhist
monk Thich Quang
Doc burned himself to
death during a protest
against South Vietnam
President Diem.
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.
2. Conflict Theory
• Karl Marx – economics
and power differences
• Study the social patterns
and structures that develop
as classes compete for
scarce resources
• Power/Conflict
• Revolution not Evolution
• Max Weber – many
factors; favoured
bureaucracies
3. Symbolic Interactionism
• Max Weber argued
that we act towards
people and things on
the basis of the
meaning we assign
them.
3 Schools of Anthropology
• 1. Cultural Anthropology
– analyzes cultures of
living people
• 2. Social Anthropology –
analyzes social
organization of living
people
• 3. Physical Anthropology
– analyzes human
evolution and genetic
development
Anthropology
• Cultural Materialism
• Founder: Marvin
Harris
• Breaks culture down
into 3 divisions
• Culture is created to
solve the universal
problems societies
face
Ethical Research
• Napolean Chagnon
• Yanomamo: The
Fierce People
• Is extreme violence
among the Yanomami
a cultural adaptation or
a genetic difference?
3 Schools of Psychology
• 1. Psychoanalysis
• Developed by Freud to
probe the unconscious
mind and treat
patients anxieties and
phobias
3 Schools of Psychology
• 2. Behaviorism
• Focuses on studying
observable behavior
• Edward Lee
Thorndike
• Law of Effect
• Applied to curriculum
3 Schools of Psychology
• 3. Cognitive
Psychology
• Studies how people
perceive their
environment, learn
and remember
Aversion Therapy
• Controversial
• Exposes patient to a
stimulus while
subjecting them to a
form of discomfort
• Stimulus = Unpleasant
sensation
Desensitization
• Treatment of phobias
• Repeatedly evoking an
emotional response in
a “safe” environment
so that anxiety
becomes irrelevant
Introvert
• Tend to be quiet
• Low-key, deliberate,
• Gain energy when
performing solitary
activities
• Enjoy intense one-onone social interactions
Extrovert
• Tend to be energetic
when surrounded by
people
• Enthusiastic/Talkative/
Assertive
• Tom Cruise is a
Jackass
• “I’m in love!”