Exam 11: Unobtrusive Research

A friend of yours is doing a term paper to compare the infant mortality rates in the United States, Japan, Bolivia, and Pakistan. You tell your friend that a good source to check is:

Which of the following is a disadvantage of using content analysis to explore a research topic?

Which of the following choices is NOT a benefit of content analysis?

Which of the following modes of observation does NOT require the researcher to intrude to some degree on whatever he or she is studying?

Standard probability sampling techniques should NOT be used in content analysis.

In comparison to coding the manifest content of communication, coding the latent content:

Unobtrusive measures can reduce the problem(s)of:

Logical reasoning and replication are used to handle the problem of validity in the analysis of existing statistics.

Which of the following would NOT be a potential unit of analysis in unobtrusive research?

You are interested in doing a content analysis on the characteristics people seek in a partner by examining the personals section of three newspapers. Your unit of analysis is:

The adage that you must walk a mile in another person's shoes before you can understand the views and feelings of that person is similar to the sociological concept(s)of:

If we wanted to determine whether states that pass clean air legislation (no smoking in public areas)are more likely to enact laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets than are states that had not passed clean air legislation, the unit of analysis would be:

How can the use of existing data and statistics help researchers? What are the benefits of using them? If they are used, what are potential shortcomings and caveats that need to be acknowledged in the research?

An ideal type is a conceptual model composed of the essential characteristics of social phenomena.

Which of the following is NOT illustrative of unobtrusive observations?

Compare and contrast two comparative and/or historical methods and provide at least one example of each.

In data collection and analysis, the determination of the unit of analysis occurs after sampling.

Professor Jenner was interested in using Census Bureau data to examine the trend in unemployment rates in the United States. However, Jenner's definition of unemployment did not match the one used by the Census Bureau. Jenner was dealing with the issue of _____.

Thomas is concerned that in his content analysis he is misclassifying observations to support his emerging hypothesis. He turns to you for help. Which of the following suggestions would be POOR advice?

Understanding the sometimes ambiguous relations between concepts linked together in secondary analysis is known as _____.