Deck 2: B: Sociological Investigation

Question 1

What are the essential differences between scientific sociology,interpretive sociology,and critical sociology?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss the idea that science is one form of truth.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Thinking about measuring a variable,how is reliability different from validity? Which concept implies the other?

Answer 3

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Question 4

List the three conditions required to establish cause and effect in social scientific research.

Question 5

Provide one strength and one limitation of each of the major research methods described in this chapter: experiment,survey,participant observation,and secondary analysis.

Question 6

How does a researcher transform a concept into a variable?

Question 7

What is a spurious correlation?

Question 8

What did Max Weber mean by "value-free" research?