Common Goals
The goal of sociological research
Gather systematic and objective data
Kai Erikson's study of buffalo creek flood is what type of research
field research
Independent Variable
Variable expected to influence another
Four criteria for establishing casualty
Statistical Relationship
Casual order
No Spuriousness
Best Explination
Country is both an island and continent
Australia
Hypothesis typically have a relationship between
Independent and dependent variables
The Tuskegee Syphilis study violated ethics by
Withholding treatment from participants
Random Sample
Each population member has equal chance of selection
Difference between participant and nonparticipant observation
participant: Researcher joins the group
Non: Researcher observes with no interaction
This is one of the only foods that can never go bad
Honey
Random sampling ensures that
Everyone in the population has an equal chance of being selected
Minneapolis domestic violence experiment found that
Arrests reduced recidivism in some cities but not others
Secondary Data
Pre-existing information analyzed by researchers
Ensures results can be generalized to the population
Mageirocophobia is the fear of what activity
cooking
Most effective design that establishes cause and effect relationships
Experiment
The unheard third survey in NY aimed to
Address food insecurity and poverty
Spurious Relationship
Correlation explained by a third variable
Why was Tuskegee Syphilis Study unethical
Participants were denied treatment to continue the study
What dinosaur is often used as an example to showcase the change of creatures and the evolution of traits due to environments around them?
archaeopteryx
Ethical issues in sociology focus on
privacy and confidentiality
What ethical principle was violated in Laud Humphreys study of public restroom encounters
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Privacy
Informed Consent
Participation is voluntary based on understanding
How does secondary data collection differ from primary
secondary uses existing sources, primary involves original data collection
The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic word for "reuniting"
Algebra