2-Sociology

Why use surveys rather than interviews to ask students about sensitive subjects like drug use or sexual health?

What are you engaged in if you are trying to decide whether “violence” includes words as well as actions?

A question that usually produces a wide variety of responses by allowing respondents to answer in whatever way want

For a survey to be considered valid, there must be a sufficiently

For social scientists, what causes a paradigm shift?

What is the difference between basic and applied research?

Which of the following is a DISADVANTAGE of using ethnography as a method of social research?

Many politicians argued that listening to heavy metal music led teenagers to die by suicide. What is this an example of?

A closed-ended question is one that

Sociologists who conduct interviews can only gather data from a limited number of people because

Which of the following is a DISADVANTAGE of using existing sources of data for research?

What kind of research are you doing if you observe a group in order to determine its norms, values, rules, and meanings?

A group of couples get counseling, the other group does not, if studying divorce, what is the independent variable?

Another word that describes having a good relationship with a subject so they open up.

Changing one variable seems to change another variable, this shows ________ but does not necessarily prove ________.

documents such as photographs, diaries, letters, newspapers, and song lyrics use which of the following type of data?

What basic step should have saved you from the problem of finding someone did a similar research project?

Drug use in a community can be studied by testing sewage, What part of the process would this be?

Research that focuses on the researchers own thoughts, feelings, and experiences is known as:

What is a researcher guilty of if he or she allows his or her own values and opinions to affect his or her analysis?

What is the scientific method?

Which of the following is an advantage of using interviews as a research method?

What do ethnographers call their written observations?

The consistency of a measurement tool, or the degree to which the same questions will produce similar answers, refers to

What describes the research method of looking through the community’s trash and litter

How do Likert scales allow respondents to answer?

Survey research produces quantitative data. What is a key advantage of this kind of data?

If your hypothesis is “watching violence on television causes an increase in violent behavior” what are the variables?

A sociologist liked entering the social world of the people she was studying. What can you say about this researcher?

When conducting experiments, how is the experimental group different from the control group?