Exam 1: Introduction

To say that research is empirical means it is based on ______.

We investigate the impact of conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict ended by exploiting geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide that occurred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia. We find that children of individuals who were of prime marriage age during the genocide and experienced greater intensity of genocide have worse educational and health outcomes. In particular, for each standard deviation increase in the intensity of the genocide, averages childrenred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia. We find that children of individuals who Adapted from: Islam,A., Ouch, C., Smyth, R., & Wang, L. C. (2017, June). The intergenerational effect of Cambodia's genocide on children's education and health. Population & Development Review, 43, 331 2017

Explain the difference between research method, methodology, and sampling method.

Choose the research method you would use to most appropriately address the following topic: You want to know how state budget cuts are affecting students' ability to stay in school.

Which method of data collection involves immersing yourself deeply in another culture or subculture?

You are conducting a study of the ways in which males get teased or hurt for acting too feminine. You have decided that for the purposes of this study, "teased" means that their behavior is explicitly joked about, laughed at, ridiculed, commented upon, criticized, judged negatively, or copied in an exaggerated way. Which component of the research process have you been engaging in?

Which method of data collection consists of comparing perspectives of different groups of people in some depth?

Which of the following is an example of a basic research topic?

You decide that you want to conduct research to determine whether a theory about how people use and resist power is correct. You are using theory to ______.

Researchers at the University of Iowa conducted a study that focuses on distracted driving. When answering verbal correct or incorrect questions, respondents who answered the questions took about twice as long to direct their eyes to a new object on a screen than those not required to respond to verbal questions or who were asked no questions at all. The research is helping us understand how even a simple conversation can affect your brain's ability to focus on the roadway. Adapted from Lewis, R.R. C. (2017, June 8). UI study explores why cell phone use leads to distracted driving. Retrieved July 2, 2019, from https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/06/ui-study-explores-why-cell-phone-use-leads-distracted-driving Which research method do you think the researchers used? Are their data qualitative or quantitative? Explain your answers.

Which method of data collection involves asking open-ended questions in order to understand their perspective on some phenomenon?

Use the abstract below to answer the three questions following it: Through an analysis of student journal entries, this study discussed how students enrolled in a course on the abolition of the prison system engaged with the possibility of, and barriers to, a world without prisons, punishment and other forms of control. We consider how students negotiate the concept of abolition as a radical justice alternative. As the journal entries showed, while students were able to understand the basic principles of prison abolition, many remained confused about how to choose between the existing system and the unknown landscape of abolition and could not see its viability or possibility as a radical alternative. Adapted from: Chartrand, V., & Piché, J. (2019). Abolition and pedagogy: Reflections on teaching a course on alternatives to punishment, state repression and social control. Contemporary Justice Review, 22, 23-42. https://doi-org.mantis.csuchico.edu/10.1080/10282580.2019.1576129 Which research method did these authors use? Are their data qualitative or quantitative? Is their research basic or applied?

You are doing research on how females tease males by threatening their masculinity. You define "threatening" as "criticizing, making fun of, joking about, laughing at, imitating in an exaggerated way, making negative comments about, drawing attention to, or reprimanding." Which component of research is this?

You want to know how men in roles traditionally deemed "women's roles" are treated, and how this compares to the treatment of men in traditionally "masculine" roles. You volunteer on a cancer unit at a hospital to get an insider's view of how patients, doctors, and female nurses interact with male nurses as well as how they interact with male doctors. Which research method are you using? Are your data qualitative or quantitative? Is it basic or applied? Explain your answers.

How is a study's methodology different from its research method?

You want to know how the rate of suicide is affected by economic crises. Would you use existing statistics or secondary data analysis to conduct your research. Why?

You want to know how men in roles traditionally deemed "women's roles" are treated, and how this compares to the treatment of men in traditionally "masculine" roles. You volunteer as an assistant to the coed cheerleading squad so that you can get an insider's view of the way the female cheerleaders interact with the male cheerleaders as well as the way they interact with the football players. Which method are you using to collect your data? Will your data be qualitative or quantitative? Basic or applied? Explain your answers.

Which method of data collection is best used to understand how a change in social conditions affects people?

List three things a researcher must do in order to protect their research participants from harm.

Explain the similarities and differences between existing statistics and secondary data analysis.