Exam 2: Methods

A sociologist studying minor children,pregnant women,or inmates must get approval,as these groups are known as:

Which of the following is an example of a negative relationship between individual behavior and health?

LeeAnn is a graduate student in sociology who is studying media depictions of gun violence in popular films such as Rambo and Scarface.Her choice of methods is known as:

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

Georgia has volunteered at the local crisis center.While she is volunteering,she is given permission to "gather data" and ask the women about the circumstances surrounding their abuse.What method will Georgia most likely use?

The general approach to comparative research is to:

If a sociologist studies 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?

The more consistent the results given by repeated measurements,the higher the ____________ of the measurement procedure (and vice versa).

If Juanita practices ____________ in her research,she carefully considers how her role as researcher may affect those whom she studies (the researched).

Sandra is doing research on cheating among students at Duke University.The student body at Duke will serve as her:

Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research methods and give an example of each from the many examples discussed in Chapter 2.

The extent to which a researcher can claim that his or her findings explain a larger population than was studied is known as:

Which of the following is the best example of a correlation?

In her study,Darby is using church membership as an indicator of how religious a person is.She discovers that some "very religious" people rarely attend church.Darby may conclude that:

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

A sociologist's subject matter presents some difficult research problems of a kind that natural scientists rarely have to deal with.Which of the following does NOT describe such a problem?

Perhaps the most difficult method(s)to apply to the social sciences,as compared with laboratory-based natural sciences,is/are:

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

Which of the following methods involves collecting data from written reports or other artifacts in order to discover patterns in behavior/attitudes dating to an earlier time period?

Elizabeth would like to conduct a study to determine how women define spousal abuse and the meanings they attach to their abuse.What research method will Elizabeth most likely use?