Sociology-review2.1-2021

Objectivity refers to being...

Studying human social behavior is a problem because...

TRIVIA: Coal now makes up slightly less than __% of total electricity production.

TRIVIA: What element is not usually found in coal?

Like symbolic-interaction, emphasis on qualitative data and how reality comes from interaction.

TRIVIA: 2017 study, what % of miners working 25+ years get black lung in central Appalachia?

A control is when you hold a variable constant, to test the validity of other variables.

Procedure for determining the worth of a specific object

Something that is consistent in measure, multiple test results come out same.

TRIVIA: 2017 study - working 20-24 years in the mines drops rates of black lung in central Appalachian miners to:

A mental construct which as value that changes from case to case.

Most data-driven approach. Views reality as stable and measurable.

When 2 variables seem to have a connection, but when a 3rd is held constant, the connection goes away.

TRIVIA: If you were to search for general rates of black lung disease in miners, you would find...

The variable that causes another to change is the

Like social-conflict, uses data to discover how groups gain advantage over others.

A variable that changes once another is introduced.

Mental construct that represents a simplified aspect of the world: i.e. poverty.

In order to find a spurious correlation, one can use a...

An educated guess...

When 2 variables seemingly are cause-effect, but they just coincide.

Like structural-functional, this approach attempts to use data to explain how society operates.

TRIVIA: Coal industry is _% of West Virginia's state employment, being $2bil in wages and $3.5bil in economic impact.

When two things happen together it is ___, when one creates an effect in another it is___.

When you measure exactly what you intend to, it is called.