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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Assumption or prediction that in itself causes the expected event to occur, this seeming to confirm the prophecy's accuracy.
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social construction of reality
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Process through which the members of a society discover, make known, reaffirm and alter a collective version of facts, knowledge.
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spurious relationship
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A false association between two variables that is actually due to the effects of some third variables.
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survey
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Form of social research in which the researcher asks subjects a series of questions verbally, online or on paper
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theory
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Set of statements or propositions that seeks to explain or predict a particular aspect of soical life
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unobtrusive research
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Research technique in which the researcher, without direct contact with the subjects, examines the evidence of social behavior that people create or leave behind
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variable
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Any characteristic, attitude, behavior, or event that can take on two or more values or attributes.
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visual sociology
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Method of studying society that uses photographs, video recordings, and film either as mean of gathering data or as sources of data about social life
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