Sociological Research Methods Exam #1 Review

What method has questions with predesigned answer choices and questions?

This type of research seeks to identify the cause and effects of social phenomena and predict how they will change

Errors that result from the instrument that affect cases in ways that are likely to occur in the same way

What method involves deep immersion in a culture?

stratified sampling is a method in which sample elements are selected separately from groups identified in advance

This type of research describes or identifies the impact of social policies and programs

This sampling method is a sampling procedure in which elements are chosen from a list, with every “nth” element chosen

A variable that is hypothesized to vary

Exploratory research seeks to find out how people get along in the setting under question and what meanings they give

What is the first step for researchers who are creating probability samples?

An ethnography uses methods such as secondary data analysis, content analysis, and experiements.

What is choosing to look only at things that are in line with our preferences or beliefs?

This type of research has the goal of figuring our what the world is like…it creates new knowledge!

the subset of the population that is used to study the population as a whole

What type of research is descriptive research?

What is a set of logical, systematic, documented methods for investigation of natural processes?

When a conclusion based on studying only a sample of the population holds true for the rest of the population

Sampling in which elements are selected in two or more stages, with random selection of clusters and random elements

How well a measure covers the full range of meanings…or the full range of questions

Interviews, Observations, and ethnogrophies are what type of methods?

What method uses data gathered by someone else to compute new statistics from them?

Survey questions should include biased terms and double-barrel questions

This exists when a measure predicts scores on an (already validated) criterion that will be measure in the future

This is what happens when our statements about emperical reality are correct…

A specific expectation is deduced from a general premise (theory) and then tested

These are variables that can be rank-ordered, and whose values represent units

the process of connecting concepts to measurements…need to specify measures at this stage

This type of view about reality believes no single objective reality exists for people

When a measurement procedure yields consistence scores each time

is a sampling method in which the probability of an element of the population being selected is unknown

What one of the three aspects that make a good research question?

What is a challenge social scientists face?

What are methods of research that record variation in social life in terms of categories, using data that is numbers?