Value-Committed Research refers to:

Research carried out with the intention of improving society

Interpretivists try to use verstehen in their research. What is it?

Putting yourself in the situation of your participant.

Positivists think sociology should be value-free. Why?

Objective research produces objective laws.

Durkheim's positivist research studied what?

The quantitative relationship between suicide & social facts

Challenge Q! Popper says science is falsifiable; sociology is not. What does this mean?

Sociological research cannot always be disproven.

Conscious partiality is where...

the researcher should partially identify with the research subjects

Value Freedom refers to:

When sociological research is not influenced by our values

Challenge Q! Value Laden Research is:

Research which is not carried out objectively

The inductive method is a feature of science, and therefore positivist sociology. What is it?

The process of researching, then forming a theory

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Value-Committed Research refers to:
Research which is free from the influence of our values
Research carried out with the intention of improving society
Research which is objective
Research which is carried out according to a funding body
2
Interpretivists try to use verstehen in their research. What is it?
Putting yourself in the situation of your participant.
Becoming friendly with your participants
Remaining objective throughout research
Not becoming over-friendly with your participants
3
Challenge Q! Which of these sociological perspectives is NOT generally value-committed?
Marxism
Interactionism
Functionalism
Feminism
4
Positivists think sociology should be value-free. Why?
Objective research produces objective laws.
Value-free research is always positive.
5
Durkheim's positivist research studied what?
The reasons why people commit suicide
How suicides became labelled as such
The quantitative relationship between suicide & social facts
The qualitative relationship between religion and suicide
6
Positivist sociologists might use which of these methods?
Participant Observation
Case studies
Questionnaires
Unstructured Interviews
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Value-Committed Sociologists believe that objectivity in research is:
Undesirable
Impossible
Impossible & undesirable
8
Challenge Q! Popper says science is falsifiable; sociology is not. What does this mean?
Sociological theories must be disproven by research
Scientific theories are always proven true by research
Sociological research cannot be objective.
Sociological research cannot always be disproven.
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Conscious partiality is where...
the researcher should partially identify with the research subjects
the researcher remains subjective
the researcher remains objective
10
Value Freedom refers to:
When sociological research should be influenced by values
When sociological research is influenced by our values
When sociologists use their values to guide their research
When sociological research is not influenced by our values
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Challenge Q! Value Laden Research is:
Research which is carried out objectively
Research which is not carried out objectively
A research perspective which agrees with positivism
A political view about using sociology to improve society
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Interpretivism is likely to use which of these methods?
Comparative Experiment
Participant Observation
Official Statistics
Questionnaires/Surveys
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The inductive method is a feature of science, and therefore positivist sociology. What is it?
The process of forming a theory, then researching it
The process of researching, then forming a theory
The process of researching meanings behind actions

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