Exam 4: How Do We Know What We Know the Methods of the Sociologist

An Institutional Review Board (IRB) exists to

Three important issues to keep in mind when conducting research are

We can conclude __________ if four criteria are met: two variables must be related, one must precede the other, there must be no extraneous variables influencing the relationship, and the researcher must not have influenced the relationship.

In observation research, we directly observe

Data refers to formal and systematic information, organized and coherent.

In an investigation of how IQ affects students' grades in sociology class, the variables are

In the hypothesis, "children whose parents are married are more likely than those whose parents are divorced to have academic success and successful friendships, " what is the independent variable?

In the relationship between people's sex (male/female) and choice of major (sociology, architecture, nursing, physics, etc), sex is the

What are field studies? Please identify and explain the four different types of field studies discussed in the text, and point out the advantage or purpose of each.

Sociologists are conducting fewer ________ now than they once did.

A researcher is hired by a company that manufactures solar roof panels to study attitudes toward solar power. The researcher asks the company's customers their opinion of using alternative energy such as solar energy, and finds that 95% of the customers are in favor of using solar power. This study

A _________ sample involves picking every "nth" element of the population, for example every 10^th or 15^th name from a list.

Sociological researchers must try to avoid bias, but can not completely eliminate it.

Discuss whether and how you could study the effects of parental divorce on students' school achievement using an experiment, survey, observation, and interviews. If you could not use a particular method, explain why not. If you could, briefly explain the process you would follow.

What do the Milgram research (shock), Rosenthal and Jacobsen (teachers' expectations), and Humphreys (gay men) have in common?

In a survey of about 80 students in two Sociology classes, Nate found that 43 of the students recycled cans, and 37 did not. Based on this, Nate reported that "the vast majority of students at the college are dedicated recyclers." Nate appears to have

If two variables, A and B, are correlated, and if A precedes B in time, then A is a cause of B.

We hope that if we can understand enough variables such as race, sex, age, region, religiosity, etc, then we can reasonably guess human behavior in particular situations. This reasonable guess is the essence of __________.

Sociological research

What is true about interview studies?