Lesson 1 PT 1
a limited number of cases drawn from the larger population
What is Sample?
a written set of questions that survey participants answer by themselves
What is Questionnaire?
require the person to answer in his or her own words
What is open-ended questions?
a measure of how things are related to one another
What is Correlation?
a testable statement of relationships among well-defined variables
What is Hypothesis?
a trained interviewer asks questions and records the answers
What is Interview?
a thorough investigation of a single group, incident, or community
What is case study?
a variable that can be measured and given a numerical value
What is quantitative variable?
what results from the change in the independent variable
What is dependent variable?
a research model central to science as a social institution
What is scientific method?
all the people with the characteristics a researcher wants to study
What is Population?
has the same basic characteristics as the general population
What is Representative Sample?
collecting and analyzing non-numerical data to understand concepts, opinions or experiences
What is qualitative variable?
the variable that is hypothesized to cause something to occur
What is independent variable?
BONUS: The scientific study of group interactions and patterns
What is Sociology?
questions that a person answers by choosing from a limited, predetermined set of responses
What is closed-ended questions?
a researcher becomes a member of the group being studied
What is participant observation?
events occur in predictable, nonrandom ways
What is Causation?
influences the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable
What is intervening variable?
BONUS: A view that looks at the behavior of the group, not the individual
What is sociological perspective?
When a researcher uses information that someone else has already gathered
What is secondary analysis?
looks closely at aspects of social life that cannot be measured quantitatively and that are best understood within a natural setting
What is field research?
a relationship between two variables that is actually caused by a third variable affecting both of the other variables
What is spurious correlation?
states that an event occurs as a result of several factors working in combination
What is multiple causation?
BONUS: The ability to see the link between society and self
What is sociological imagination?