Social Research Methods and Analysis

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BBC Horizon: Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis (1/5) BBC Horizon: Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis The history of David Reimer An experiment on nature versus nurture goes tragically wrong. On 22 August 1965 Janet Reimer was granted her dearest wish: she gave birth to twins. The two boys, Brian and Bruce, were healthy babies, but they would lead tragic lives, blighted by one scientist's radical theory. BBC Horizon: Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis (2/5) BBC Horizon: Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis (3/5) BBC Horizon: Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis (4/5) BBC Horizon: Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis (5/5) David Reimer case study (gender re-assignment), edited clip David Reimer pt 2. David Reimer pt 3. David Reimer pt 4. David Reimer (final) The story of David Reimer (Born a boy,brought up as a girl) Reimer's Story

This video is to encourage people to read the Constitution and read the words of the men that created our founding documents. If you want to know the type of men that the founding fathers truly were, and not what revisionist histori

3 white kids are doing bad things to a car 3 black kids are doing bad things to a car

Maria Penningtons "Social Experiments with Simon Snow;" Michael E. Benedecks "Cronofobia-Fear of Time," James & Robert Dastolis "Another Way Home" and Drew Reibers "Earth vs. Mars." (2007)

This experiment explores common situations to test to see what variables are more likely to elicit a protective response from strangers. A normal-looking woman leaves her belongings unattended at the beach and a man (part of the experiment) comes by and steals her Ipod and speakers. No one really helps, though they notice, but if the normal-looking woman makes small talk with people nearby, they are much more likely to respond to the thief. Switch the normal-looking woman for someone much more attractive and things change. She doesn't have to even make small talk - people step in to react when the thief steals her things but the difference is they all noticed her more... because we notice beautiful people, we're more aware of them when they're near us. Take that same beautiful woman, though, and tell her to come on to another woman's husband a bit... she's suddenly not someone to just observe, she becomes a threat and is treated quite differently. We've been tal...

8:18 Observing the behaviour of people who pass by a vehicle with a baby locked in the car. (Staged) This would connect with both the Physical Aspect of Being and the Emotional. We know that, in several ways, the body and mind works to maintain the status quo or balance(homeoestasis) so it is interesting to see people who seeminly are uninvolved or unaffected by this situation get involved and become a part of the situation. What Motivates them? Their intrinsic cognitive motivation where they do it for their own purposes (intrinsic) and mentally recognize a threat (to someone else in this case) but they cognitively try to eliminate the threat or risk to the infant. Maybe, by recognizing a threat to another human being, especially one who cannot protect themselves, they themselves feel threatened and feel compelled, by instinct? to act? Who knows... We've also learned that emotions are different from feelings. While emotions are more intense and momentary, feelings are longer-lastin...

When a pharmacist refuses to fill a young girl's prescription for contraceptives, the others in the waiting room react. The conflict for them is whether he has the right to refuse her based on his morals? From a social psychology point of view, this video is a good exploration of Attitudes, how they are formed and what function they serve the people in this experiment. Our attitudes are part of our Emotional Aspect of Being, are patterns of beliefs and values and shape our future actions. There are three types of Attitudes (A, B, C: Affectively based (emotional), Behaviourally based (observing behaviours of others) and Cognitively based (reacting with our rational thoughts over our emotions). We've learned, also, that Attitudes are very much linked to Motivation - they help us gain approval or acceptance of others, help us make sense of our surroundings, protect ourselves from uncomfortable truths around us, and help us demonstrate our own unique ideas and values. In this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAkDHuimJRc This experiment turns into a pretty emotional one. While some people are unaffected by the discrimination they observe, others are completely offended on behalf of the victim. One man who objects to her treatment can relate because of his own experiences, but other people (two different white women) seem completely offended by the idea that anyone would be treated in such a way. Consider (though we haven't talked about this year) what is it about some people that makes them step forward on behalf of a stranger? Some people are content to witness something in their surroundings but are somewhat unaffected by it, while others are compelled to act. What is the motivating factor? Could it have anything to do with each person's place in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, maybe? The stronger ones who are higher in the chart, closer to self-actualization, may feel more comfortable stepping forward while others, less secure in themselves and the...

I. Social Psychology - case studies and experiments 1. Intergroup Discrimination Experiments Henri Tajfel (1970) 2. Solomon Asch experiment (1958) A study of conformity 3. The Robbers Cave Experiment Muzafer Sherif et al (1954) 4. Selective Group Perception They Saw a Game: A Case Study Hastorf and Cantril 5. Obedience to Authority The experiments by Stanley Milgram

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