Secondary analysis source that is release every ten years by the United States government and includes information about age, race, gender, income, education, marriage, birth rates, death rates, and marital status
What is the Census?
100
Idea that events occur in predictable, non-random ways
What is causation?
100
Step One of the scientific method
What is identify the problem?
100
A sample that accurately reflects the characteristics of the population as a whole
What is a representative sample?
100
Characteristic that is subject to change
What is a variable?
200
Group of people that represent a larger population but are used for the efficient access to them and not as a true representation
What is sample of convenience?
200
Social events are explained this way because they are usually too complex to be explained by one single force
What is multiple causation?
200
Last step of the scientific method
What is state findings and conclusion?
200
A research method where the researcher becomes a member of the group being studied
What is a participant observation?
200
A group that shares specific characteristics
What is a population?
300
Sociological research tests this and replaces it with facts
What is "common sense"?
300
The expected type of correlation between hours spent studying and the grade for a course is this
What is a positive correlation?
300
Professional sociological group in the United States
What is the American Sociological Association (ASA)?
300
Characteristic the reflects change
What is a dependent variable?
300
A thorough (and frequently long-term) study of a person, group, or incident
What is a case study?
400
Research method that is ideal for studying large numbers of people
What is a survey?
400
The expected type of correlation between the number of days missed in school and the grades earned in a course is this
What is negative correlation?
400
Document of the ASA that outlines appropriate research in the field of sociology
What is the Code of Ethics?
400
A testable statement of relationships among well-defined variables
What is a hypothesis?
400
Characteristic that changes the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable
What is an intervening variable?
500
The ability to conduct research without allowing personal biases or prejudices to influence you.
What is objectivity?
500
The 1950s belief that increased ice cream sales correlated with increased drownings in an example of this
What is spurious correlation?
500
Part of Principle B in the ASA's Code of Ethics - to be honest, fair, and respectful
What is Integrity?
500
A relationship between two variables
What is correlation?
500
Characteristic that is defined by its presence or absence in a category