Exam 12: How Can Researchers Learn From Information Collected by Others Existing Data

What was the focus of Shapiro's research and how did he go about studying it? Why was a mixed methods approach useful?

A limiting factor of using oral histories for secondary analysis is _____________.

What is meant by physical traces and how can it be a source of existing data? What is the difference between measures of erosion and measures of accretion?

Parigi, Santana, and Cook used a method called _____________ to assess the underlying influences of and dynamics within social interactions.

Big data can only be used in quantitative research.

Large quantities of data collected by companies or institutions through digital means is called ________________.

Using SJS data, Stanton and team found that ________________________.

Using GSS data, Glick and Golden found that the percentage of whites saying that homosexuality is always wrong __________ since the 1970s.

Though the FBI has collected data on police practices since 1930, it does not have a database of _______________.

Oral histories are different from interviews in that ______________.

How often is data collected via the U.S. Census?

Secondary analysis can involve qualitative or quantitative methods.

The Social Justice Sexuality project includes over 5000 respondents of colour who identify as LGBTQIA2S+.

Discuss how Maril (2012) used government documents to study the construction of walls at the US-Mexico border.

A disadvantage of using official statistics is that ____________________.

What is the sample size for the General Social Survey?

How would you utilize physical trace data to study an aspect of your own campus?

Where is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research housed?

Design a research project for which secondary data analysis would be ideal. What would you focus your study on? What type of secondary data do you feel would be best and why? What might the limitations be?

What is big data, how is it gathered, and for what purposes? Discuss an example of how social researchers have used big data.