Exam 15: Research Using Historical and Comparative Data and Content Analysis

Research that involves studying a single case in a long period of time is known as ______.

If there is no deviance from a causal explanation proposed by a historical comparative researcher,their causal approach is ______.

Event history analysis considers historical events across different geographic units,usually nations.

Describe the process of creating an event structure analysis.Design an event structure analysis of your decision to attend this college or university.

Event history analysis requires a researcher to do all of the following except:

Which of the following techniques involves studying interviews about the lives of individuals,either collected by the researcher or obtained from an earlier study?

John Stuart Mill's method of agreement helps to establish causality in which type of research ______.

A researcher is examining the historical events of a nuclear disaster.In order to investigate thoroughly,she first classifies historical information into discrete events and then orders them into a temporal sequence.After identifying prior events that occurred leading up to the disaster,she creates an event's diagram and then eliminates connections from the diagram that are not necessary to explain the disaster.This process is an example of ______.

What is the relationship between comparative and historical research and the use of secondary data sources?

Which of the following is a good example of an historical events design?

Research that involves studying multiple cases (usually nations)throughout a long period of time is known as ______.

Cross-sectional comparative research tends to be case-oriented research.

When Frank,Hironaka,and Schofer (2000)studied the historical development of environmental protection around the world from 1900 to the late 1900s,they were conducting what kind of research?

Narrative historical explanations tend to be ______.

To identify the underlying structure in a chronology of events,historical social researchers use ______.

In demographic research,the emphasis is on characteristics of the population,not the sample.

Qualitative comparative historical studies are likely to rely on availability or purposive samples of cases.

A study of romance novels found four different types of heroines predominated: the cold professional,the emotionally scarred,the romantic dreamer,and the self-sacrificing martyr.This study is most likely ______.

Historical and comparative methods seek to answer questions about economic development,stratification,and other social processes by ______.

According to Skocpol (1984),analytic historical sociology collects quantitative longitudinal data about a number of nations and then uses these data to test hypotheses about influences on national characteristics.