General Social Survey

and weaknesses. Unofficial measurements, just like official crime statistics, also have their own strengths and weaknesses. Unofficial measurements can be seen through two major data sources which are social science and private agency records. The social sciences can be seen through victimization surveys and through self-report studies. The legal definition of crime is: ‘A violation of a law in which there is injury to the public or a member of the public and a term in jail or prison, and/or a fine

Sociology can be defined as the study of human society (Conley, 2013, p. 3). When studying sociology, we need to use our sociological imagination, which is the ability to see connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history (Conley, 2013, p. 4). When people think of sociology, many tend to think of being a sociologist who studies human society. However, sociological issues, problems and theories are all around us in our daily lives. Using our sociological imagination

though their desire for it remains strong (Lindau et al., 2007). This research study is based on the activity theory. The activity theory of aging states that older people will have a higher satisfaction with life if they are able to maintain their social roles (Whitbourne, 2005). Unless they face health issues or disability, older people needs and desires are just the same as middle-aged people. In relation to the activity theory, it is easy to assume that having the ability to remain engaged in sexual

It is unfortunate that crime exists in our daily lives. There really is no way to stopping crime completely, no matter how many laws or punishment are present, people will continue to keep breaking rules. There are many theories of why that may be the case, for example, Caesar Lombroso and his “atavistic” theory with the Positivist School theory and how people were “born criminals”, or the Rational Choice Theory, devised by Cornish and Clarke, described that people could think rationally and how

1 Feminist Theory and Survey Research “The idea that there is only ‘one road’ to the feminist revolution, and only one type of ‘truly feminist’ research, is as limiting and as offensive as male-biased accounts of research that have gone before.” ~Liz Stanley and Sue Wise, 1983, p. 26. Introduction Over the past three decades, feminist methodologists have hammered home one point with surprising regularity: Feminist research takes a variety of legitimate forms; there is no “distinctive feminist

Introduction Environmental and social situations are more powerful to determine a person’s behavior than personality differences. Psychology is basically the study of the human mind to be able to understand a human’s actions, emotions, behaviors, reactions and attitudes. Using a scientific approach social psychologists study everyday actual problems to determine behavior and characteristics of the social situation. Social psychology was strengthened by researchers like Solomon Asch in the 1905’s

and why crimes and victims are viewed in the ways they are. Before the moral and social implications of crime can be thought about, there is the simpler task of tracking crime in general. Crime can be measured in various ways using different methods. In Canada, crime is recorded from two main sources, from the police and from the victims/general population. In 1962, Canada put into place the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR). The UCR aims to provide “police-reported crime statistics that were complete

[27,28,32]. When restricted to analyzing within-group data alone, there is no way to determine whether improvement in participant HPV vaccination acceptance may have been partly due to unintended learning about the vaccination from a detailed survey, or to social desirability bias because participants gained a sense of the study’s aims. This increases the chances of researchers making the type I error of incorrectly concluding that improvements were the result of

Social Discrimination, Identity, and Stereotyping Introduction The Problem with society is that we cannot accept that we are all different. Many people have seen others as different from themselves but feel that they are in the majority of people that are alike. This can be called social discrimination. Stereotypes are prevalent in society. Stereotypes are inevitable and unpreventable. As we accept that we are always under scrutiny in others eyes we begin to examine

mentioning that I am not presently a fan of hip hop, so the interpretation of the results gathered may not lead to the same conclusion as someone who is a fan of hip hop. To address my research question, I conducted personal interviews, and I also wrote a survey for people to take