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24 Cards in this Set
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tearoom trade
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impersonal sex in public places by Laud Humphreys
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rational choice
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how is the behavior a rational response to opprtunities and constraints?
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interactionist
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how does this behavior occur through processes of interaction? what kinds of interactions take place?
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functionalst
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what contribution does this behavior make to the continuation of a society as a whole?
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marxist
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is thinking about the exonomic class relations apparent in the behavior?
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feminist
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how can women's lives be considered in a study of an all male group
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research methods
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diverse methods of investigation used to gather factual material
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factual questions
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empirical questions (what happened)
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comparative questions
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relating one social context to another (did this happen everywhere)
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developmental question
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compare societies past and present (has this happened over time)
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theoretical questions
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interpret what facts mean (what underlies this phenomenon)
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causal relationshop
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association in which one event of situation produces another
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correlation
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existence of a regular relationship between two sets of occurrences or variables
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variable
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any dimension along which individuals or groups differ
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independent variable
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the one that produces an effect on another variable
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dependent variable
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variable affected
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controls
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hold some variable constant to look at the effects of others
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ethnography
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first hand studys of people using participant observation
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participant observation
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interviewing
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surveys
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questionnaires are sent and administered directly to a selected group of people
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sample
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small portion of overall group
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random sampling
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every member has the same probability to be included
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triangulation
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combining several methods in a single piece of research using each to supplement and check on the others
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reflexivity
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describes the interchange between sociological research and human behavior
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