Forum 1.3 - Practical Experience

1/10/2019

Guiding Thought Question: When trying to better understand the social behavior of a group, whose insights would you seek? That of a native to the group or the insights of a researcher? What are the positives and negatives of each perspective?

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the ways in which sociological can be used to better human society by examining examples of prior sociologists and exploring current trends in human study.

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Caitlin

1/15/2019 07:36:06 am

Probably a native because they can tell you what is going on both emotionally and factually rather than the solely scientific approach of a researcher. The researcher would know lots of technical information they could apply to the situation though, but they would still probably be an outsider so they wouldn't have the whole story.

Blake Anderson

1/15/2019 07:41:40 am

If you need to understand a behavior look at the average or similar people with that behavior to understand it. I think the native of the group is a better way of fully understanding it. positive to research is you get a overview of whats already done but with the natives you get non bias deeper look into their lives.

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