Exam 2: Asking And Answering Sociological Questions

Beginning in the 1920s in American sociology,largely at the University of Chicago,the discipline of sociology began to transform in what way?

Robert Park's vision of sociology included:

Compared to other Western countries,divorce rates in the United States are _______________ although rates have been _______________ everywhere.

frank develops a questionnaire for his study on Internet dating.One of his questions asks,"How do you feel about Internet dating?" What type of question is this?

What calculation gives a researcher a good idea of how spread out a series of numbers is?

A classic social science research study involved setting up a make-believe jail and randomly assigning male student volunteers to the roles of guards and prisoners.This research used what method?

The median is a better measure of central tendency of skewed data than the mean.

for his research project in his sociology class,Jose is studying dating preferences among college students.He has already decided to conduct a survey of his classmates and has developed a hypothesis.What should be his next step?

Which research method would best address the following research question: How much does participation in one session of a SAT preparation course affect students' SAT scores?

In an experiment on the effects of caffeine on the alertness of college students,student volunteers are randomly assigned to two groups.One group is given caffeinated coffee while the other group is given decaffeinated coffee.All participants then play a video game to assess their mental acuity,measured as their final score on the video game.In this study,the group that is given caffeinated coffee is called the:

What kind of research method would be best suited if you were hired by a real estate company to learn how the residents in a gated community feel about racial desegregation?

The main purpose of sampling is to:

Which research method would be best to use if you wanted a large,representative sample of people's attitudes toward married women with children working outside the home?

Alice Goffman spent six years hanging out with and observing the everyday life of a group of black men who were on the run from the criminal justice system in a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia.Her research methods most closely resemble the work of:

for his research project in his sociology class,Jamal is studying eating disorders among college students.He is currently interviewing several subjects.What stage of the research process is he in now?

Only research projects that follow the sequence of steps outlined in the text result in accurate findings.

In her research on everyday life in a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia,Alice Goffman concluded that all of the following places were dangerous for the black men in her study who were on the run from the criminal justice system in the sense that police used these places to locate and arrest them EXCEPT:

Experiments are much less common in sociology than in the natural sciences.Why is this?

Is sociology a science? Explain.How is it similar and different from the natural sciences?

Compare Robert Park's vision of sociology with William Ogburn's.