Test One
This means choosing to only look at things that are in line with our beliefs.
What is selective observation?
Members of the community you're observing who can help you get an "in."
What are gatekeepers?
This research method is used because surveys can be expensive.
What is Secondary Data Analysis?
This research method collects and analyzes any type of audio or visual data.
What is Content Analysis?
This methodology sees bias as a big problem.
What is positivist?
This is the biggest cause of errors in research.
What are human beings?
A research method where the researcher participates in the daily lives of the participants.
What is ethnography?
This is a location where data are stored.
What is a Data Repository?
This methodology points out things that a reader may not realize, in order to show how things really are.
What is Critical Methodology?
This methodology sees bias as something to be expected.
What is interpretivist?
These are claims that are appear scientific but lack evidence and plausibility.
What is pseudoscience?
The most common research method in Sociology.
What are surveys?
A table used to represent the results of Statistical Research.
What is a cross-tab?
Using every available example of a specific sample.
What is a census?
This Social Theory uses a cost/benefit analysis.
What is Rational Choice Theory?
Completing a research project in a timely manner and without breaking the budget.
What is feasibility?
We use this to measure results from surveys.
What are statistics?
This disease is an example of how the definitions of variables can change over time.
What is AIDS?
This research method is rarely used in Sociology because we're not usually interested in studying people in a lab.
What are experiments?
This document presents the research to be conducted, tells the participants their rights, and is usually signed.
What is Informed Consent?
Previous ideas upon which research questions are based.
What are Social Theories?
Using numbers or short phrases to label ideas that come up research results.
What is coding?
This is used to analyze existing statistics.
What is statistical analysis?
Special considerations and protections are needed for this group when conducting research with them.
What are vulnerable populations (pregnant women, prisoners, those with cognitive impairments).
The concept Holly has pounded into your heads all semester. It allows researchers to completely disclose everything about the research project, how it's conducted, and any problems with the research.
What is transparency?