Consent Process
Sociological Paradigms
Composite Measures
Measuring Your Concept
HodgePodge
100
Details of the research project are hidden from the respondents to ensure the integrity of the data collected
What is deception?
100
Societal issues relate to attempts of one group to dominate others and to avoid being dominated
What is conflict paradigm?
100
Disagree strongly, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, and strongly agree is an example
What is the range of variation?
100
By specifying dimensions and identifying the various indicators of each dimension, we have done this
What is complete conceptualization of a concept?
100
The who or what being studied in a research project
What is the unit of analysis?
200
Reality is created with each new interaction
What is ethnomethodology?
200
For an index or scale to be considered ____________, its component items should be indicators of only one dimension.
What is unidimensional?
200
Need to know the attributes to determine this
What is level of measurement?
200
Knowledge for knowledge's sake best describes this
What is pure research?
300
Random numbers are applied to respondents so only the researcher knows who the respondent is allows the respondents data to remain ____________
What is confidential
300
Challenged "men" as the predominant unit of analysis
What is feminist paradigms?
300
Two criteria to assess measurement quality
What are reliability and validity?
300
Variables are made up of mutually exclusive and exhaustive these:
What are attributes?
300
Using the time dimension, this is what type of project the US Census is
What is longitudinal?
400
Two elements of informed consent
What are voluntary participation and no harm to subjects
400
Social entities can be viewed like organisms
What is structural-functional paradigm?
400
In item selection, this encourages us to not have any question that only a few respondents would endorse.
What is variance?
400
Process through which a researcher applies meaning to the concepts of interest
What is conceptualization?
400
Likert scales are designed to be ____________ in measurement
What is ordinal?
500
Professors requiring their students to complete research projects during class period makes us concerned for this
What is voluntary participation
500
Societies can be studied logically and rationally
What is positivism?
500
Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
What are the levels of measurement?
500
Ways we attempt to learn about the world we live in
What direct experience, tradition, direct/personal inquiry, and authority?
500
They are required to take their research project to the IRB for institutional approval
Who is everyone?
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