Exam 2: Methods

A variable that is thought to be influenced by another variable is known as the:

Ethnographer Mitchell Duneier spent five years hanging out with booksellers on the streets of Manhattan.His role as both researcher and participant provides a great example of the importance of:

A variable that is thought to cause a change in another variable is called the:

Which of the following is an example of a quantitative research project?

A testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables is called a(n):

Jill wants to know more about how democratic a society is.When she begins her study,she defines the level of democracy as the proportion of people who are able to participate in popular elections.With this definition,Jill has ________ the variable "level of democracy."

Which of the following is an example of a negative relationship?

In social research,a hypothesis is best described as a(n):

Juanita is a graduate student studying male prisoners.She carefully considers how her gender,age,and education may affect the prisoners and their responses to her.Juanita is practicing:

Charles is a sociologist studying a population of gay fathers in the United States.He interviews 200 men in his data collection.These 200 men constitute what researchers call a:

A type of longitudinal study in which the same sample of respondents is tracked over a long period of time is known as:

Which of the following might be an advantage of participant observation research?

A potential shortcoming of survey research is that surveys:

After consistently burning dinner for a month,John found out that his oven's temperature gauge was giving readings that were 50 degrees cooler than the oven's actual temperature.John's oven thermometer can be said to be:

If Kate begins her research with a theory,then forms hypotheses and makes some observations,what approach is she using?

Andy hypothesized that the stress created during economic downturns would increase the probability of spousal abuse.Stress would be considered the ________ variable,and spousal abuse would be considered the ________ variable.

If a sociologist collects data on only one high school in a study of the effectiveness of its parent-teacher association,he or she is using which of the following research methods?

When cities such as Detroit requested adjustment of census data,why did this research issue become a political battle? Because:

Paula begins to notice that there are patterns to where people sit on the bus,and these patterns differ depending on whether the rider is male or female.Based on these observations,she generates a theory about the behaviors of men and women.This is an example of which kind of research approach?

Which of the following describes a research problem that sociologists have to deal with?