Sociological Methods
Interviews & Qualitative Research
Survey Research and Quantitative Methods
Surveys of Family Violence
Random
100
Sociology has attempted to re-create the three key tenets of natural science methods...Which methods does Hattery and Smith mention?
What is Objectivity, Generalizability, and Repeatability
100
Name an example of Qualitative research.
What is interviews or observations
100
This survey gathers data on relationships, families, and housing, as well as population in an effort to paint a portrait of the United States population.
What is the US Census
100
These are two of surveys used to generate data about various forms of family violence.
What are self-report research and crime report.
100
Data that is gathered and analyzed is supposed to be reported in an ___________ manner
What is objective
200
According to Hattery and Smith, this is considered to be the hallmark of natural science research...
What is An experiment
200
Name an advantage that the interview method has over the survey method in terms of understanding family violence
An interviewer can build a rapport with a subject rather quickly, once trust is established Also, questions posed by researchers are typically open-ended and allow for the subject to interpret the question in his/her words.
200
Quantitative methods are defined as techniques or strategies for collecting _______ data, and usually vast quantities of it, that require statistical techniques in order to analyze it.
What is numeric
200
The survey is loaded into a computer system, and a trained phone interviewer administers the survey to the respondent over the phone.
What is Random Digit Dialing (RDD)
200
This survey utilized one of the most common and powerful sampling designs in order to gather data from a nationally representative sample of men and women.
What is the National Violence Against Women Survey
300
Define: Correlational (According to Hattery and Smith)
What are indications or evidence that events coexist
300
This technique requires the researcher to embed themselves in a naturalistic setting to observe behavior
What is Ethnography
300
What three conditions are required in an experiment?
What are random assignments, manipulation of the independent variable, and control of third variables
300
This survey is conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Law enforcement agencies and corrections departments.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey.
300
It focuses on all types of victimization including being the victim of a robbery or stranger assault. It does contain data on various types of family violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey
400
Sampling is a critical part of sociology. Why do Sociologists seek to design sampling techniques?
To capture as much of the range of human experience as is relevant to our research questions
400
Unlike typical statistical methods, qualitative methods are used to identify:
What is themes or qualities
400
Uniform Crime Reports are used to track racial differences in arrests and stops, which is referred to as:
What is racial profiling
400
The most widely utilized mod controversial of the large scale surveys that have been utilized to measure family violence.
What is Conflict Tactics Scale.
400
Surveys are designed to elicit standard responses to short questions or statements and very rarely include the kinds of questions that will elicit detailed responses. In fact, one critique of many surveys designed to estimate family violence is that they do not include measures of frequency.
What is a Weakness of Survey Research
500
An experiment requires which three conditions?
What is a Random assignment, Manipulation of the independent variable, and control of third variable.
500
This term is referred to as "ways of knowing"
What is epistemology
500
An early criticism the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) received was a lack of ______ in the survey, because it focused on college students which limits the type of participants
What is diversity
500
all law enforcement agencies, including municipal police departments and county sheriff offices, send a “report” each month directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Though these reports include “crime counts” (how many crimes of various types were reported in the previous month)
What is Unified Crime Report
500
we know that one in four women will experience an episode of domestic violence in her lifetime, and that this rate increases for women who are poor, are nonwhite, marry young, have more than the average number of children, and live with a partner who abuses alcohol or drugs, we cannot predict the likelihood that an individual with these traits will be abused.
What is Ecological Fallacy
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