Like an experiment that can be summed up with empirical evidence, how is this hard for you to understand? If you make a claim, it's your responsibility to back it up.
Watching reality tv programmes is most definitely not a good way to try and explain any kind of social phenomenon. The type of people that apply to appear on such programmes are chosen for their "out there" personalities, most of which is false. Also, you're deciding to judge the whole world based on 10 or slightly more people in a house, with rules that are completely different to the outside world? Firstly, that group is far too small for it to be representative of the population. Secondly, you may as well judge everything in human behaviour off of Zimbardo's prison experiment.
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BT is saying that since he can 'read' people (whatever the hell THAT means), qualifications and study are irrelevant when it comes to psychology, and using anecdotes and stuff he's seen on TV to come to a conclusion is the same as doing a controlled, scientific study?
I just...wow. I cannot fathom the ignorance that can lead to someone saying something like that.
Right, Burning thought, here we go. Psychology and sociology are not nearly so simple as you think they are. If they were, I wouldn't be planning on pursuing a doctorate degree after finishing my undergrad studies.
They are science, though. Hence the need for careful study and measurement. Psych and Sociology have come a very long way since Freud and such. There's also biological and neurological psychology which are pretty much inarguablely science, behavioral studies are also very much scientific.
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science isn't the be all and end all. A lot of times I wish I had more experience with literature. ****, I haven't read non-fiction in years probably...
Some comics are good for literary analysis. If one were so inclined there's enough information about things like COIE that you could probably put together a very substantial paper. Maus, Watchmen and Seven Soldiers would be the cliches, I'm sure, and they're probably worth looking at just to gauge the development of the genera (first graphic novel, first modern comicbook, most obviously post-modern comic). Personally the emergence presented by the development of comicbook "universes" seems like it would be fascinating since it pulls together so many different factors on so many different levels. I've also someone who was studying the history of popular culture, in the 30s and 40s comics are one of the biggest aspects worth looking at.
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