02/19/20: Doing Sociological Research

When doing sociological research sociologist when they turn to studying have to focus on exactly what they want to figure out so they tend to look at interactions and to see how society basically works together. So when it comes to interactions there can be symbolic interactions which would involve a human and then based off that ones self can determine how exactly they might interact with another and a sociologist would look on the our perspective and try to dive in and see why someone interacted with someone in such a way that they did. So for example when we went over in class when we said if someone sat next to us while there was a whole room full of empty seats we would usually interact with our guard being up or lets say we got nervous or scared a sociologist would want to do research on why do we feel that way and also nature and nurture could also have a play in this lets say if in the past people usually don’t sit next to me then that would be something different for me and a sociologist would then be able to make that connection.Functionalism also comes into play and they see things from a step to step type of function considering all types of pieces come all together in order to function . The main argument against this is that society is to corrupt and that there was no function because the parts in society don’t actually connect at all and function together and it does not all smoothly run all together. When research is being conducted a researcher will select a topic and then pick a corresponding problem , then gather literature and formulate a hypothesis and then pick a type of research method then they choose the way they want to gather there research . This is when they turn to surveys, documents, experiments etc. they analyze the results then share them and based off that research can give more ideas for researches to conduct more research on a certain topic. The type of research method also all depends on what kind of answers they might need how efficient and the money as well especially because it is so hard to get people to take surveys now.