Discussion Thread 3:
Write about a decision you made or an action you took that was informed by data. Think critically about a time in the past year when you made a decision (either big or small, consequential or trivial) and how data shaped that decision.
Answer each question/prompt in numbered order.
- Describe a scenario in the past year where you’ve made a decision that was based on data of some kind.
- Was the data qualitative or quantitative?
- What was the data source? How much faith did you have in this data?
- What additional data could have been useful to inform your action/decision?
Listen to the podcast from 3:40 until 10:55:
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-histor…
Answer each question/prompt in numbered order.
- From a social institutional perspective, why did Hoffman’s research not get acted on for 50 years?
- How do you feel about Gladwell’s argument that football is like miners asthma/Black Lung?
- As research is produced that shows the negative impacts of football on the brains of its players, what changes might occur? What are the barriers to changes, in the case of football (think in terms of social institutions here! Use terms/concepts from Module 2!? Concepts and terms from module 2
- “Sociological imagination”
- Understand the concepts of social structure, social institution, and organization
- Know broadly what “social theory” is and how it relates to social institutions
- Be able to describe three theoretical approaches: functionalist theory, conflict theory, and critical theory
- Understand three key parts of social institutions: roles, norms, and values Sociology
