Survey Research; Experiments
This type of survey question presents a list of pre-written responses for the respondent to choose from.
What is a closed-ended question?
This type of ethnographic field work limits the risk of the ethnographer altering the social dynamic in the field, but also increases the risk of misunderstanding the situation and has ethical implications
What is covert observation?
BLANK measures are measures collected by observing the overt and observable actions of participants; BLANK measures are self-reported responses of participants to questions about their attitudes, opinions, emotions, and beliefs; and BLANK measures are biological responses to stimuli
What is behavioral; what is attitudinal; what is physiological?
THIS is the analysis of a single variable; THIS is the analysis of the relationship between two variables; THIS is the analysis of the relationship between 3 or more variables
What is univariate; what is bivariate; what is multivariate
When researchers design and carry out their own data collection
What is primary data collection
Strengths of this survey method include relative cheapness and reduced interviewer effects
What is online survey administration
Interview-based researchers may ask THIS type of question to dig deeper
What is probing?
Materials related to popular culture, including paintings, novels, songs, television shows, movies, magazines, and comic books. They can be analyzed for the social beliefs and attitudes they represent
What are cultural artifacts
BLANK variables moderate the relationship between an independent and dependent variable; while BLANK variables link the independent and dependent variable
What are moderators; what are mediators; what are confounds
A researcher wants to communicate findings about regional voting patterns visually - what is the name for what the researcher wants to show and what tool would be most appropriate?
What is spatial distribution; what is mapping
In experimental research, the researcher BLANKS the independent variable to determine the effects on the dependent variable
What is manipulates
A sampling strategy in which cases are deliberately selected on the basis of features that distinguish them from other cases
What is purposive sampling
In historical sociology, a thought exercise of imagining what might have happened but did not, which can be useful in case selection
What is a counterfactual?
If a distribution is skewed by an outlier, which measure of central tendency is most accurate to use to describe the data?
What is the median
The sections of a research paper a researcher would be most likely to present at a professional conference
What is the methods section and results section
A type of question that forces the respondent to give a concrete answer; a type of question where you should be able to accurately select only one answer (you are not in a situation where several of the responses would be true at the same time)
What is forced choice; what is mutually exclusive
A group interview, led by a moderator, usually the interviewer on a specific topic.
What is a focus group?
Individual-level data such as birthdate is an example of what kind of data?
When presenting a cross tabulation of variables and comparing groups, this way of presenting the numerical information is better generally for giving your reading a clear comparison of the groups
What are relative frequencies or percentages
Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan state, “what people say is often a bad predictor of what they do.” Which two methods of research are being compared? Which method theoretically avoids this problem?
What are interview methods and ethnography; what is ethnography
This way of grouping participants in an experiment ensures that the only difference between the experimental and control group is the independent variable being manipulated
What is random assignment
The data produced by an ethnographer, including observations, dialogue, and thoughts about what is experienced in the field; the raw materials of the research.
What are field notes?
What is biased
The association between an independent variable and dependent variable BLANKS if a mediating variable is introduced into the statistical analysis
What is reduces or disappears
These are the 3 preconditions to establishing causality
What is correlation; time ordering or independent variable preceding the dep variable; ruling out spuriousness