INSTRUCTIONS: The links below take you to video clips from Reel Society, a unique movie that brings sociology to life through the use of actors and scenarios involving life on campus, in the community, and within the family. These clips allow you to explore a wide variety of topics and issues, including culture, socialization, marriage and family, inequality, race and ethnicity, deviance, the media, social change, and more.

View the videos, answer the following questions below and discuss your answers with your classmates and instructor.

1			Scientific Method: Dave's Slam Channel Profile Broadband (13403.0K) Dial-up (3717.0K) Consider another of the social science fields in which you have taken classes. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the research methods used in that field, with the scientific method as used in sociology. What are the special circumstances of society that might impact the way sociologists conduct their research, compared to a biologist or a chemist? What difference does it make that sociologists study the behavior of human beings?