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When completing ethically questionable methods, what three questions should you ask yourself?
is it fair, is it true, is it wise?
What's the difference between correlation and causation?
suggestions vs actuality
what is an ethnography?
in depth observation of a group of people- began in anthropology
What are the features of a longitudinal study?
comparative analysis over a long time
The more qualitative the data, the more ______ it is.
The more quantitative the data, the more_________ it is.
valid, reliable
what is it called when a researcher becomes the center of their own studies?
going native
What is validity, reliability and representativeness?
Validity- how accurate does research describe what it's trying to describe
Reliability- How effective was research? - can it be replicated and checked?
Representative- is the sample population reflected accurately in the results?
which school of thought prefers a value-free approach, and why?
positivism- bc sociology is like any other science
What may be an ethical concern of completing an ethnography, or fieldwork?
disrupting the population
what can you do to make sure your work is generalizable?
create a representative sample
What could be a downside of using personal documents for your research collection?
incomplete, inaccurate, unrepresentative
What are the features of a structured interview?
in person, asks same questions in same order to get comparable data- could cause the researcher effect
What are the pros and cons of an unstructured interview
pros- qualitative data
cons- hard to analyze data due to quanitity of it
Wha is three problems a researcher can run into when using covert participant observations?
getting in, staying in, getting out
What is the difference between methodological pluralism and triangulation
theory vs practice
What is random sampling?
creating a representative sample through random selection, similar to a lottery
According to Oberg what are the four stages of research design?
1- planning
2- information gathering
3- information processing
4- evaluation
Who were the founders of Positivism and Interpretivism
auguste comte & max weber
What research methods may you choose if you lean towards interpretivism?
field experiments, ethnography, observations, qualitative
What is systemic sampling? What's an example?
taking a sample from a sample frame- taking 25% of a 100 name sample size
True or False: If a researcher chooses a positivist approach to analyzing the relationship between rabies and teenage boys, they should choose field research to analyze the best understand the emotions that could be causing this trend?
maybe, but maybe not- they should choose a quantitative approach to get a stronger link to causation.
A positivist is researching the likelihood of people surfing in north carolina- which method may they choose
a quantitative one
An interpretivist is trying to find out why students have been tying their shoe laces to their crushes' shoe laces as a sign of attraction- what are two methods they could choose to get their data?
surveys, interviews, observations, etc
What are the four parts of scientific ethos?
1- universality
2- communal knowledge
3- disinterested
4- Skeptical
Who spoke of "verstehen" and what does it mean?
weber- understand by experiencing