Exam 2: Studying the Social World

Which of the following potential projects studying convenience stores could be said to be utilizing a qualitative research method?

According to Haney's account of her time in a women's prison that also housed the children of its inmates,how did incarceration impact those children?

__________ see themselves as the interpreters of other people's own interpretations.

Why is it important that sociologists care about the research they are conducting?

Catherine is taking a research methods class in which the semester project involves conducting original research.Catherine is interested in finding out if viewing particular television programs has an impact on behavior.She wants to see if children are more likely to engage in aggressive behavior after they watch television shows that exhibit violent images.Catherine's tentative prediction is what scientists refer to as __________.

You are about to conduct a survey.You want to select a sample to mirror the larger population you are studying and to reflect the demographics of that population.Which type of sampling should you use?

Sociologists who claim to be skeptical about the ability of researchers to discern cause and effect in our complex world are expressing a(n)__________ difference with sociologists who insist that they can indeed figure out what causes our world to work as it does.

What are cross-national comparisons?

What does it mean to operationalize a research question?

All sociologists,regardless of preferred research method,tend to pay a great deal of attention to reliability and validity when collecting data.

The U.S.census is a good example of what kind of interview?

How long have sociologists been studying the familial effects of maternal imprisonment?

Like anthropologists,sociologists are most likely to conduct their fieldwork among foreign cultures.

Which of the following statements about values and sociological research is true?

Sometimes sociologists decide that the best way to answer a research question is through a combination of different research methods.

You want to study a riot that occurred over 60 years ago.You have access to a handful of survivors,but they likely cannot provide all the information you need.Which two research methods should you use to complete the study?

Data from which research method arguably takes the longest to acquire?

The goal of social research is to __________.

Sociologists make a distinction between __________ epistemologies.

Ethnographers enter the everyday lives of those they study in the hopes of understanding how the systematic study of ethnic identity can be an end in itself.