The research process and the Standford experiment

In chapter 2 " The Research Process" I read about different techniques social scientist use to describe and measure the patterns in social life. One of the techniques is Identifying and understanding patterns I'm social life and also gathering empirical evidence which are evidence based on observation and or experience, explains how the evidence was collected and analyzed also viewing research claims and provisional knowledge subject to revision . In chapter 2  it also tells us how how theory and data act together in social science. Research theory helps us identify key research questions and to interpret the data that are collected. Data provide the evidence that can support existing theory, lead to changes in the theory, contradict a theory, or result in the development of a new theory.
       One of the research that relates to the chapter 2 reading is the Standford Experiment video . The purpose of Stanford prison experiment was to see the psychological effects on the prison guards and the prisoners. To conduct this experiment, Philip Zimbardo randomly assigned 24 college  students to be either guards or prisoners and to live in a fake prison for the next two weeks. After six days, however, the experiment had to be terminated. The students, who were assigned to be guards, started to mistreat the “prisoners” by calling them names, threatening to beat them, or forcing them to commit humiliating acts. Also the students, who were selected to be prisoners, showed signs of depression, low self-esteem, and other signs of emotional disturbances.  This experiment is a good example of the research process because in this experiment they used a lot of the techniques that social scientist use like empirical evidence, Philip Zimbardo and he's researcher observed that, because  the the prisoners where being mistreated the started to feel depressed .

Culture

What does culture mean to you ? Culture is what you belief, your knowledge, norms language behavior and material object shared by people.  Culture can be passed from generation to generation and some it is referred to as the way of life. Culture consists of  both material and non material elements. Material elements are like objects we can see and touch by people in a particular culture , objects like clothes, toys,painting, and housing which you can find in a museum. Non material culture      refers to the idea of a culture  like values, beliefs, ways on how to understand and live in the world. The idea and practice of culture makes up an entire way of life  affecting how people eat, work, love, think  and live . The element of culture which are Value, which is how people judge the world especially in terms of what is worthwhile like wealth, equals and success. The second one is belief which is people's opinion that people accept as facts like god exist. The third one is Knowledge, which is informations , understanding that make People communicate like language, mathematic and sociological insights . Another element is Norms  which is rules and what people expect to be a appropriate behavior .  Behavior which is also one of the element is the action associated with a group that help produce a distinct way of life like appropriate sexual behavior . The last one is Object and artifact like items that can be touch physically like food clothes and music.  Values, knowledge, beliefs and norms are the idea of a culture which help to shape people's view toward the world, providing unwritten guidebook on what to think and how to behave

who am i ?

Hello my name is Mutiat , im 19 years old. i was born May 27th in a big country in west Africa called Nigeria . I've lived in the United states since i was 10 years old, i love the united states but i love and miss my country more. It was hard for me to move to the United states because i had leave some of my family behind . I'm happy i came to the United States because i met alot of great people and got alot of opportunies with jobs, school and so much more. One of my hobbies is modeling . i've been modeling since i was 14 years old, and i love it . On my spear time i love to cook, dance, eat , read books and sometimes bake . one of the things i love to do is meeting new people .
 some of my influence in life is fashion , i love fashion and art because they both make me feel good about myslef . One of my role model is Chanel Iman , because she's a strong lady and worked hard to get where she is in life today. My dreams in life is to become a super model just like her. My goals in life is to become a medical doctor , because  i love to help people that are sick, giving them the help they need . I've always wanted to be a medical doctor since i was younger , i pray and hope i reach my goals and dreams in life.