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23 Cards in this Set
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What is a Hypothesis? |
Ideas or question about a given state of affairs, put forward as bases for empirical testing. |
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What are Research methods? |
The diverse methods of investigation used to gather empirical (factual) evidence. |
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Whatt is Ethnography? |
The first hand study of people using participant observation or interviewing |
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What is Participant Observation? |
A method of research widely used in sociology and anthropology in which the researcher takes part in the activities of the group or community being studied. |
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What is a Survey? |
A method of sociological research in which questionnaires are administered to the population being studied. |
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what is a population? |
the people who are the focus of social research. |
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what is a pilot study? |
a trial run in survey research. |
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what is a sample? |
a small proportion of a larger population. |
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define sampling: |
studying a proportion or cases from a larger population as representative of that population. |
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what is random sampling? |
a sampling method in which a sample is chosen so that every member of the population has the same probability of being included. |
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experiment? |
a research method in which variables can be analyzed in a controlled and systematic way. |
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Define "measures of central tendency": |
the ways of calculating averages |
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define correlation coefficients: |
the measure of the degree of correlation between variables |
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what is a "mean"? |
a statistical measure of central tendency, or average, based on dividing a total by the number of individual cases. |
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what is a mode? |
the number that appears most often in a given set of data. this can sometimes be a helpful way of portraying central tendency. |
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what is a median? |
the number that falls halfway in a range of numbers- a way of calculating central tendency that is sometimes more useful than calculating a mean |
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what is standard deviation? |
a way of calculating the spread of a group of figures. |
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what is degree dispersal? |
the range or distribution of a set of figures. |
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what is comparative research? |
research that compares one set of findings on one society with the same type of findings on other societies. |
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define science: |
the systematic study of the physical world |
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what is empirical investigation? |
factual inquiries carried out in any area of sociological study. |
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how many steps are there in a proper research method? |
Seven |
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list the steps in order: |
1)define the problem 2)review the literature 3)create a hypothesis *Concise,Clear,Testable 4)create a design 5)carry out research 6)interpret results 7)report the findings |
