Exam 1: Through the Lens of Science

The totality of the phenomenon under study is called the:

The mean, the median, and the mode are concepts used in participant observation.

If you were a social scientist and you wanted to establish the existence of a relationship between single parenthood and social class, what kind of a research design would you choose? Explain why your particular choice is the best, as well as the steps you will have to follow.

The social sciences were initially concerned with the consequences of:

Research is used mainly to refute theories.

Statistics that allow researchers to generalize to a population from a sample are called:

Ethical neutrality is the opposite of:

Which of the following is NOT an example of a subject investigated by social scientists?

Political science has taken a turn toward the social sciences in its studies of:

Human beings are born into a social world that is:

There has been pressure on a number of state legislatures to give legal status to gay and lesbian unions. You, as a social scientist, are conducting research on how the American people feel about the issue. How do you go about it? Do your feelings interfere with the way you form your questions? With the way you report the answers?

The current trend in the social sciences is toward:

The social science that deals with human use of the natural environment is:

Scientific research relates to:

Intuition, authority, tradition, and common sense:

Descriptive statistics:

Economics is concerned with the universal problem of scarce resources and how

History is often not considered a social science because:

Furnishing historical data about past societies with no written records is the task of:

Social science theories: