This is my favorite "Crash Course" so far. It is not only because the subject is interesting (almost "crash course" series have interesting topics), and not because this is my area (which is not: I majored in physics and am doing a PhD in economics). What I am loving in this Crash Course is that the presenter doesn't feel the need to "force a joke" every 40s to maintain the viewer's attention (as it is the case in almost all the other courses). Instead she prefers to address complex topics using simple and succinct sentences, and express her own enthusiasm by the topic. Then, what keeps our attention is the material itself. Congratulations!!

@bucketfoot5306

7 жыл бұрын

So you like videos that are completely humorless. This is why academy is failing, there is nothing about humor that is unscientific, you can express deep truths about the world while still using humor. The difference is that if you use humor it will be more effective in reaching human beings. Thankfully my professors aren't like you and know when to crack a joke and understand that humor does not invalidate what is being presented.

@barutaji

7 жыл бұрын

bucket foot5 "that's why academy is failling". What a sentence to use specifically in this video... What exactly "failling" means? How do you know the reason (if so) is what you said? How can you simplify a topic so complex (as almost all social topics) to that silly phrase? And how can you know that he does like just videos that are humorless? Be more rigorous in your thought, please.

@jvgama

7 жыл бұрын

bucket foot5, I pity those around you if you believe the only alternative to « "force a joke" every 40s » is being completely humorless.

@tomaspeverell

7 жыл бұрын

may I ask what prompted you to switch fields?

@Farisss92

7 жыл бұрын

I switched fields too! I majored in genetics and immunology, and now doing a masters in adult education (not teaching). I grew up thinking I would be a scientist because science and maths used to be my favorite+strongest subjects but it turns out I'm made for social sciences and humanities. Sociology is an important part of my masters and my personal favorite!

i dunno i think ice cream being The Main Instigator is worth consideration

4:32 That I - vi - ii - V chord progression though!

@CrisGarcia6

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, isn't it awesome. I'm taking music theory. I like the idea

I laughed and then proceeded to high five the screen when you said "That doesn't make you a sociologist. Sorry." - thank you Crash Course team! You're killing it with this subject too.

Hi CrashCourse, She is great. She really makes sociology interesting. She talks too fast tho. 4 videos in and I get a splitting headache just to keep up. She is great thought. Love this. Please maybe slow down a little. Btw, Don't forget to be awesome.

@ashkanhassani

6 жыл бұрын

you can always slow down the video in the settings

@manuelsputnik

6 жыл бұрын

or just pause

@kaitiecoo12

6 жыл бұрын

Dinesh Sai Menon you can slow her down. KZread has a video slow down widget..

@Su-Zi-ta

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah u can click on the right upper corner in those 3 vertical dots and click on playback speed ..i always reduce the speed and listen

The research method explanation in this crash course sociology series is much more comprehensive than the one in psychology. I'm majoring in psychology, and I'm surprised that there are lots of stuff I've studied in psychology that have intersection with sociology (especially the research method). So this series actually helps me a lot to comprehend my field of study and to construct a bigger and broader concept of humanity in my head. Also, I really like the host! I think you're my favorite one so far, beside Hank.

I'm really loving the detailed explanation of the underlying method, logic and philosophy in this series. Partly because I can relate it to stuff I already have learned in other fields.

I think its great you guys finally got around to Sociology. I think that most people who went to college in the good ol' days got introductory sociology and psychology courses in the first two years. Everyone needs the basics for the sake of general intelligence.

I'm self-taught in studying sociology and this series definitely helps me in understanding more of the subject (even though i'm obligated to be more focused on studying maths and science since i'm currently a high school student majoring in mathematics and sciences)

In an analysis of 38 comments on this video, 9 explicitly argued that sociology is not a science. Based on this, I have concluded that 23.7% of Crash Course Sociology viewers are wasting their time for the sake of being annoying (for the purposes of this study, "edgy" is synonymous with "annoying"). Is that "hard" enough science for you?

@Noah-fn5jq

7 жыл бұрын

No, that is still soft science. You don't have a large enough sample size and you aren't trying to disprove your hypothesis (which wasn't identified BEFORE acquiring data).

@pirate1234567891

7 жыл бұрын

(a) At the time of posting, the sample size was over half the total comments, which I imagine is way more than most scientific studies that require sampling. (b) *passes hand over head while making whooshing noise*

@Noah-fn5jq

7 жыл бұрын

Which are you trying to prove: That you don't know how to appropriately test something or that you don't know what "hard science" means? Either way you succeeded.

@notruescotsman777

7 жыл бұрын

I bet the data is reproducible. There's actually a growing body of sociological research relating to the 'sociology of the internet'.

@Noah-fn5jq

7 жыл бұрын

Cameron Herbert With a wide enough sample... yes. A preconceived hypothesis could be disproven or supported. This "test" did not attempt to follow even the most primitive criteria to be considered scientific though

Wow I totally get all this sociology stuff?! ...and I don't "get" anything! I love the thought of blowing the top off of social concepts and stigmas. May have found my calling

Last week I suggested Sociologists should approach observation the way other scientists approach the observation of other animals, such as lions, wolves etc. I had no idea there is an "institutional review board" which forces Sociologists to receive consent from their subjects. I can only imagine this makes the sociologist's job harder when trying to find objective facts about communities, a culture, or society. Like I've said before, observation without your subject's consent is the best way to figure out what's really going on. If I'm not mistaken, research (I don't remember what field) has been done revealing the difference between human behavior when the human knowns he/she is being watched, and when the human doesn't know he/she is being watched. It turns out, people act differently when they know they have an audience. If other scientists needed a lion's or a shark's informed consent for observation, we'd know nothing about sharks and lions. This was a good episode, though. I learned some things. I'm glad Crash Course decided to create this course.

@kristinaharr2037

5 жыл бұрын

it is always good to receive IRB approval for any sociology study you wish to carry out, that way you'll abide by the law and keep everyone happy, so you can continue to do research. Especially in regards to informed consent. If you don't receive informed consent from particpants, it could come back to haunt you later in the form of legal problems, even if you felt you as a researcher did nothing wrong. You never know how your research may affect someone, and it is ALWAYS a good idea, besides being the law, to gain the informed consent of your subjects. That way, you'll avoid liability issues, and protect yourself from bad PR as well as court fines and other punishments later. Especially if it came out that you did not even receive an IRB's apporval to carry out your research. Then, you would be unable to continue your research. As far as I know, IRB approval is needed in some cases but not others. It depends on what it is you are researching. But the basic premises of needing IRB approval and informed consent is that the subject matter in sociology involves human beings, not lions or sharks. Therefore, precautions must be taken to prevent harm, even unintenional harm. Also, in any study involving deception (by you, the researcher, to other people), even for the sake of the study, you may still do it with IRB approval, as long as you provide a "debriefing" of the study afterwards for the participants. For more information, look up the National Research Act of 1974.

I’m going to use this to help me pass my first year of my degree you explain it so easy it’s so vague in my academic course books

Really an amazing job that you're doing here with this course ! I finished my bachelor degree in Sociology last year, and it's a real pleasure to watch your videos and get a reminder of all that I've learned :) But there's one thing that tickled me : what about the bias that comes from your subject knowing that you're observing ? Plus, there are some fields that you can't get access to, or you won't be able to conduct your study properly if you show yourself as a researcher (take for example the study of work conditions in an Amazon warehouse). Sociology as it intends to unveil how society works, which often means dealing with systemic oppression and concrete agents that benefit from that oppression, sometimes has to work hidden when collecting data.

Bravo, Nicole Sweeney! I'm an economist and I LOVE this series and recommending it to my students. Thanks for your work! Keep it up!

Someone I heard once pointed out that sociology isn't rocket science. In rocket science the variables are easy enough to comprehend that most of the time the scientist can understand all of them and get the result exactly right. Sociology is a much more complex field of science than that.

@chaosblackstone7286

6 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR THAT!

@RSciOfficial

6 жыл бұрын

Umm pick a different example unless you know what you're discussing. In rocket science variables are constantly changing and calculations are that analogous to stochastic matrices, or stochastic differential equations which routes undetermined behavior. There's nothing "easy" about it, otherwise the job outlook would be a thousand percent. Sociology is not more complex, though it is contemporary which does not necessarily add complexity. Abstraction in rocket science and aerodynamic systems creates a massive list of mathematical, physical, and scientific prerequisites. So, no. Sociology is not more complex than rocket science on a generality.

@ErinRaciell

5 жыл бұрын

Johan Winqvist specifically because people are very unpredictable

@emmavink

4 жыл бұрын

RSci this is cuuuuute. Please tell me what is predictable or consistent about human behaviour, institutions, etc. No one is saying rocket science isn't difficult. It just isn't anywhere nearly as complex a discipline as sociology.

@dekippiesip

4 жыл бұрын

@@RSciOfficial it is more complex, just to such an insane extent no sociologist bothers to understand the complexity in detail. If you would make sociology rigorous by keeping track of the brains of a large number of people, the stimuli, etc, etc you could predict social behaviour accurately. The amount of computing power required is just completely impractical.

Watch the video in 0.75x speed Thank me later

@cococrabby550

5 жыл бұрын

Gracias¡

@Shefetoful

4 жыл бұрын

I watch at 2x speed because I'm busy

@ramijabr7151

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you man.

@prakashpanthi6539

4 жыл бұрын

@@killionknight🙄

Managed to get here before the "sociology isn't a science" comments.

@nimooos

7 жыл бұрын

Only took 6 minutes after you

@MountyDani13

7 жыл бұрын

I'm so tired of seeing it. If anything, people should be commenting on how little she went in to it all - I get its a crash course but this barely scraped the surface.

@FlorenceFox

7 жыл бұрын

You'd think they'd get tired eventually. But no. It's going to be in literally every comment section from here until the end of the series. Kind of like how you can click on ANY TYT video and I guarantee that you can find a comment about the Armenian Genocide.

@connorp3030

7 жыл бұрын

If the host wants to insist that sociology is a science, people will insist otherwise until the host actually addresses people's arguments.

@oregon_tails

7 жыл бұрын

sociology isn't a "hard science" and neither is "social psychology", but that doesn't mean that they aren't valuable or can be absolutely dismissed.

I'm in college for a degree in sociology. I am a huge fan of how ethnocentrism effects symbolic interactions. I also love the labeling theory.

Lo mas complicado de la sociología es el vocabulario especifico, a eso se suma la matemática y los marcos teóricos, pero si se le pierde el miedo a esas cosas, es muy interesante lo que estudia esta ciencia.

I appreciate that Nicole is talking slower now. Keep up the good work!

I think one of the concepts to remember when defining values for a variable is whether or not those values are on a sliding scale, or if those values are only ways of identifying categories. Assigning numerical values to relationship statuses seems like it makes an assumption of ranking the statuses.

Great work on these videos! looking forward to the next one!

I am a sociologist. I am currently writing a thesis in sociology. And, I can tell you, it is *NOT* a science in the same way biology, physics and chemistry is a science. *HOWEVER*, the hard sciences can not predict things that the sociological research methods can. It can not predict SOCIAL and HUMAN behaviour. For example, I did a research report last year on how a new disability policy in Australia may potentially impact people living with a disability who are from Middle Eastern backgrounds. I conducted interviews and listened to their stories. The results were telling. Most literature tells us that Middle Eastern migrants with a disability tend to segregate themselves from mainstream society and keep to themselves and not want help from our services. My research discovered that these people actively yearn for help and want it but have no idea how to access it because of language impediments and cultural shocks. Long story short, through sociological research, the organisation changed its disability outreaching policy and ultimately bettered the lives of those people. This is what sociology is for, ladies and gentlemen. Traditional hard sciences can not tell us how people could potentially be impacted by a new public policy, nor can it tell us how people living with a mental illness personally understand and make sense of their conditions, nor can it tell us when the next revolution or civil war may happen. Human behaviour is *UNPREDICTABLE*, and we just can not reply on the hard sciences for this. This is why we have *SOCIAL SCIENCES*. Unfortunately, SJWs have hijacked sociology and completely ruined its reputation. This attack against sociology must stop. I am considering starting a KZread channel on it. Would anyone be interested?

@dan7478

7 жыл бұрын

Certainly a interesting post you've written. I agree with you that we don't always have good enough data to make hard-scientific claims, especially when dealing with people... doesn't mean there's no value in other means of understanding the ourselves and the world. As for the KZread channel, I think you should definitely go for it. Good luck!

@o0danishchick0o

7 жыл бұрын

Biology is starting to become a soft science.

@Amateur_Pianist_472

7 жыл бұрын

+o0danishchick0o how can a science go from hard to soft? We can find things out exactly about how the body works.

@projectmalus

7 жыл бұрын

Matt B do you mean you're considering a channel on the attack against sociology or on sociology? I would be interested in the latter.

@Superzaldor

7 жыл бұрын

Such a channel would be very useful.

Wonderful, this video its a must not just for sociology but for everyone who wants to know the basics of reserch methods

love it! keep it going, awesome to know more about this science

that's great 👍

You are amazing! I'm learning a lot from your course

>hawthorne effect being the fact that individuals act differently when being watched >informed consent to let your test subjects be informed of surveillance

@Soosss

4 жыл бұрын

The issue of ethics.

You guys are amazing, easiest and interesting method of teaching

thanks for making such kind of lectures based on sociology .make more ideo on sociological thinkers mostly contemporary thinkers and their theories

Love this so much - great learning

she's really good... i love the video. could you please work on a separate course specifically research methods for social sciences.... please think about it

Crash course is the best series on KZread.... actually, its second only to Spacetime.

Professor Flavin, I am the founder of an educational agency called The Excalibur Reading Program, in my area of Glendale, Queens. I am finding that although as you said "Sociology is not a hard science" This class is begining to allow me to understand more, how my own community works, feels and breathes on a daily basis. Thank you, Angela

I may be risking it with this, but the series look almost as good as Phil Plait's CCAstronomy

@izaneitor

7 жыл бұрын

So pretty good!

Geez, I wish I wish I could've watched this video like 2 years ago- when I started my Health System Research. Although my hypothesis was sound, I didn't exactly made a control group for the data collection

Those crash courses make me remember my methodology classes *shiver*

Only scratching the surface of this but loving it,and want to learn more..

perfectly explained! thank you!

"The arm-chaired sociologist" XD Interesting enough, I learned about the scientific method in my sociology class before I got into it in my other science classes. :'D

This series has the high quality I have come to expect from crash course in terms of content. At least I hope this is a good overview of sociology. I'm a chemical engineer, not a sociologist. Loved the presumed spaceballs reference "I am your father's nephews cousin's former roommate"

i hope someday you also make a separate crash course about research. crashcourse way to go!!!!!

once more, very well done. Thanks! :)

Hey there, first of all: as a sociology student I appreciate a lot your work and nice presentation of something that is still quite unknown by a lot of people! Furthermore, I have a question for Nicole and everyone who might have some ideas about this : How can you consider nowadays the Internet as a field of research and how could you possibly do some observation online (e.g.: participative or incognito)? And in addition to that: in France they don't consider experiments as a valid sociological research method because you never know in which way you influenced or are influencing the population in question! This is more considered as a research method of social psychology. Thanks for the attention and have a nice day y'all :)

First, researchers start with a question/ an unproven theory which consists of the concepts on which both the researchers and audience accept its definitions. Then, researchers make a hypothesis, which they try to suggest correlation or causation of some variable (factors). Most often, they keep an independent variable to test the other factors ( which are called dependent variables). Note that correlation and causation should be carefully examined, in case of ingnoring other factors. There are 4 ways of collecting data. First, the researchers devide a group of people who hold the same status into a control group which they do nothing on, and an experiment group that they try to change a factor, which is related the their hypothesis. If the change they predict happens on the exp group, the hypothesis is supported.The second is survey. The third one is participant observation. In this case, the researcher play both role of participant and observer, which can ebable him to gain some insights of the group's behaviors. The last method is using data from other research. They can analyze data through 2 ways, deductive or inductive. Deductive method mean researcher start from data collected to form a theory and inductive method is otherwise, go from a theory to seek the data to support or object it. ( ignore this comment, i was just trying to summerise the video on my own words)

Nicole, This is a awesome series! Nature seems to be the common denominator and the best example of a perfectly balanced and functional social system. So, why isn’t this used as the starting point to build the sociologist assumption or assumptions?

The MTO (similar to the objective of HUD studies) study found a weak correlation to job success during the Clinton Administration when allowing someone to move from a poverty stricken area to more affluent areas. A null hypothesis was accepted when no positivist difference was examined between groups. Years later, economist Raj Chetty re-examined the data and when controlling for age, discovered a statistical significance with respect to age 9 when they moved. Another example of quant methodology in big data

M falling in love with this amazing teacher.

this all reminds me of my ap statistics class last year

I like how this episode makes it sound like a programming language

would you guys ever consider writing books off of the crash course series? I would totally buy them cause these videos help a lot towards my studies, just wish they went a bit more in depth.

Excellent video. I'm in love 😍

I just wanted to say thank you for the info

What a great video!!

Please (in the future) talk about Immanuel Wallerstein and World Systems Analysis!

Is there a reason the Flintstones are being used for the control group? Or Bert and Ernie for experimental group 2?

Love this series so far!

Excelent video!!

I love Crash Course, but something I observed both in the Physics lectures and this one was the speed with which the presenters speak. Could you please try and slow it down just a wee bit? Thank you :)

Well, I have an exam in research methods tomorrow so let’s see how this helps me😂😂🙏🏻🙏🏻

She has a beautiful consistent smile all through the video

This is great

I did my thesis using existing sources- I used real estate advertising from the local paper.

When sociologists live with groups to study them, doesn't the Hawthorne effect take place? Can the results of these tests be accurate?

i think the people who inexplicably "hate" sociology as a field of study are only claiming that because they're afraid that if people learn themselves and their minds better, they'll learn to better mitigate their emotional reactions to things, and then all the people who make money off of exploiting human psychology and passing it off as "popular culture" or "political discourse" will have to go get real jobs. hey, maybe they could go back to college and get degrees in sociology and do something of value for humanity instead of just ripping all our cultures and governments apart with their lucrative, lucrative "hate".

@projectmalus

7 жыл бұрын

zEropoint68 Although I do consider it a science it seems that the conclusions that it draws can change depending on external factors, such as pollution these days (carbon monoxide in the blood) or historically using lead plates for food dishes, and this made me look askance at the results. Part of my aversion also is that I dislike having my actions/thoughts predicted. However, I can see having a baseline of how the social human operates could be valuable not only as you say 'to better mitigate their emotional reactions to things', which I take to mean less influenced by advertising, but to establish an ethical line in the sand that religion and philosophy seem to have lost. Do you think i'm asking too much for sociology to do this?

@bucketfoot5306

7 жыл бұрын

Sociology does not make people "learn to better mitigate their emotional reactions to things". I don't know were that claim comes from but it has nothing to do with sociology. Most people with sociology degrees go on to work at grocery stores, you cannot get a good job with a sociology degree unless you have a PHD and become a professor. I don't know what you mean by "hate" but it sounds to me like you do not understand what you are talking about.

@jayfawn8478

7 жыл бұрын

zEropoint68 I agree.Being able to interpret social phenomena is lifetime valuable skill.

@princessjello

7 жыл бұрын

Damn, dude. relax. You seem to be full of that "hate" that you seem to denounce. Sociology is just the study of society. If you understand how society affects you, that awareness will cause you to change your behaviors even by a little bit. If you knew that sticking a metal fork in a socket would electrocute you, would you do it? It's the same concept.

@projectmalus

7 жыл бұрын

Princess Jello I for one am looking forward to the series...bring on the sh#tstorm! What you said about ''awareness (of how society affects you) will cause you to change your behavior' isn't that a little like Schrodinger's cat? How can we get meaningful results in sociology if the subject changes when you observe it or like the point I tried to make (badly) in my previous comment about pollution affecting peoples baseline awareness, a fairly new phenomenon. Is sociology flexible enough to change with the times or will it be always one step behind?

I love you Nicole

great video

Wow, when she mentioned the ice cream and murder I immediately thought "yeah they're not related but they're both caused by heat" and then voila, that was right.

Nicole is such a good host. Im genuinely disappointed when she said "youre done"

Married in Skyrim!

Yay! Alice Goffman! Woot!

I'm a student of sociology

You guys should make a psychology video about hoarding.

really comprehensive

I honestly don't understand why I have to take sociology for an associate's degree in dental hygiene 🙄 but i'm going to try my best to pass this class

I don't know if a variable with 0 or 1 category can be valid. They aren't really variables in those cases. Probably just poorly written script rhetoric? Or can you provide a 0 or 1 category variable example that can be helpful? Or would a 0 category variable be more like an open ended essay type answer?

SUB ESPANISH PLEASE, THESE VIDEOS ARE GREAT! I'm sure I'm not the only Latino with difficulties to see this in English.

Just in time for my sociology test today

As a septuagenarian, whose areas of study are Psychology and Sociology, I recall clearly the words of my professor at Sydney University. He stated, at the beginning of his lecture on this topic of research, that " 99% of research in this area is not worth the paper it's written on." How true. How very true.

7:45 "innnnnnnnnn WEST PHILLY BORN AND RAISED"

Thank you so much, the content is great, I just wished you talked slowly, So i could grab all you say easily

West Philly, two residents, I can only hope it was Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff

Great . Thanku 😊

Good watch.

At what time stamp did they address Experiment?

Thanks maam

So why do we have to inform the people that theyre being observed? Doesn't that ensure that the Hawthorne effect affects the experiment?

It was kind of odd that the video touches on ethics, and doesn't connect to Alice Goffman's research. Her work is kind of controversial (ethics wise at least). Was that a time constraint thing or is ethics of researcher a later video? Love the series either way!

"Married in Skyrim"That's me

Many people who argue that if sociology is a science or not has literally never taken a sociology course, because sociology depending on your definition and objectives can be both. It's a topic studied in sociology where even among sociologists argue if sociology is scientific or not, or should it even try to be scientific as the conventional scientific methodologies could be counterproductive to the understanding of human nature as many argue that human nature could not be put objectively, as it requires understanding or verstehen. In my opinion, like philosophy, sociology shouldn't even bother as it is rather unnecessary to be scientific but should rather supplement our knowledge and understanding of society. The problem is with our own cultural stigma that puts science on a pedestal over the humanities and i think both could coexist in harmony. That one is not superior or inferior to the other. Simply placing statistics does not make it any more scientific but rather simply to provide proof or verification of a certain claim. Sociology does not have any mathematical laws or models like Economics' law of supply and demand etc.

Idea for crash course T-shirt: one that jovialy demonizes ice cream by blaming it for murder, drownings, Friday the 13th movies, and anything else that correlates with warm weather.

Here we are again. Next week, y'all! 😎

When are we gonna get to sociology vids?

7:26 In West Philadelphia born and raised...

This video is a production coming from people who have not spent a single day doing serious sociological research in their lives. It takes a very old textbook approach to sociological research and claims that to be the main feature of actual research today. There is no discussion on how different theories of knowledge affect key research design decisions, it minimizes research to the use of deductive or inductive logic (missing out on the role of combinations of both or the relevance of adductive reasoning in most knowledge production), it presents research ethics as something done via external surveillance (failing to account for the extreme importance of personal reflexivity), it fails to present sociological questions about the feasibility of using the "scientific method" of the natural sciences for social sciences, it presents sociologists solely as scholars looking for causalities (thereby missing out on the methods and lines of inquiry offered by the biggest minds on the field), it fails to account for social criticisms towards the very idea of "science". Where's discourse analysis? Where are the phenomenological research methods? Where's the discussion on standpoints and situated knowledges? Indeed, this is a video on sociological research methods as produced by a bunch of behavioralists in the 1950s and not one made by actual sociologists in the pluralist social sciences environment of the 2010s.

If everyone is saying that sociology is an easy subject/science then how about you all try to do A Level soc and answer an insanely long essay in timed conditions 🤔

@anesiaandrews214

4 жыл бұрын

Omg A level soc is hard...I hope I make it out alive.

Why are there so many people who think that you can discredit an entire field of study simply by saying, "it's not a science." It's like saying, "tomatoes aren't mushrooms" and expecting everyone to immediately stop eating tomatoes because of your "brilliant" observation.

Wait, (step 1) they cannot conduct research on unknowing individuals but can pull data from previous research where (repeat step 1).

heat + ice cream = more violence