Chapter 1
The scientific study of society, including how society shapes individual people and groups, as well as how individual people and groups shape society.
What is sociology
an observed event that its existence draws inquiries
What is Phenomenon
Research conducted with the goal of examining a topic that is new, unstudied, or understudied.
What is exploration research
A situation wherein research subjects are made aware of procedures for and potential risks and benefits associated with a research study.
What is informed consent
Dr. Malone attended this university
What is Texas A&M University
An empirical approach to gathering data about the world around us that relies on testing hypotheses using systematically collected data, resulting in potential theories that explain observed patterns
What is the Scientific Method
This scholar coined the term "sociology"
Who is Auguste Comte
This type of data that is already numerical or data the can be represented by numbers.
What is quantitative data
This study dealt with recruitment of African American men to study health impacts of untreated syphilis from 1932-1972.
What is the Tuskegee Study
Dr. Malone's dissertation centered around this theory
What is Merton's Status Exchange Theory
When many researchers look at the social world and compare and contrast their findings in order to ascertain the consistencies and inconsistencies across their findings.
What is intersubjectivity
a system of plausible ideas intended to explain social phenomena, particularly based on principles independent of the social phenomena.
What is theory
A process that academic journal articles go through before publication, in which they are evaluated by experts on the topic.
What is Peer Review
This study set out to examine the psychological effects of authority and powerlessness in a prison environment
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment
Specifies that research does not harm the individual, and that is maximizes possible benefits and minimizes possible harms.
What is Beneficence
These are 3 of the four primary shortcuts our brains do when getting information
What are Overgeneralization, Selective or inaccurate perception, Illogical reasoning, Resistance to change.
These are the components of theory
What are proposition/statement, concept, and scope
This type of thing data is being collected about in research. Also, what is the most common in sociology
What are Unit of analysis and individuals
Researcher reproduces what they have published previously, but present it as new, original research—without citing their previous work.
This was Dr. Malone's first major in college
What was electrical engineering
These are the steps of the Scientific Method
Define the problem, review the literature, formulate hypothesis, research design, findings, conclusion, and future research ideas.
This is inductive and deductive reasoning
What is inductive reasoning deals with questions that result from specific observations of facts that a researcher thinks might point to a general tendency. Deductive reasoning starts with a theoretical premise that a researcher hopes to verify by examining specific observations in the social world.
The two types of applied research
What are program evaluation and community-based research
These are three big principles of the Belmont Report
What are Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice
Dr. Malone's dissertation was _______ methodology
What is quantitative methodology