Exam 2: Sociological Research Methods

Analyze the six steps of the "Conventional" Research Model.Be sure to include a discussion of the terms hypothesis,variable,sampling,validity,and reliability.

Social integration and loneliness are examples of______________,which are the abstract elements representing some aspect of the world in simplified form.

Sociologists conducting research may formulate a(n)______________,which is a statement of the relationship between two or more concepts.

Case studies are the most widely used research method in the social sciences because they make it possible to study things that are not directly observable-such as people's attitudes and beliefs-and to describe a population too large to observe directly.

______________ is the study of social life in its natural setting: observing and interviewing people where they live,work,and play.

Age,sex,race,and ethnicity are often used as______________variables.

In Suicide,sociologist Emile Durkheim documented that a high suicide rate was symptomatic of a large-scale social problem.This research was in direct contradiction to the historically held notion that suicide was:

______________ are specific strategies or techniques for systematically conducting research.

Watching students in a college classroom in order to determine the number of times they participated in a class discussion would be an example of______________field research.

The______________approach attempts to answer questions through systematic collection and analysis of data.This approach is referred to as the conventional model,or the "scientific method," and is based on the assumption that knowledge is best gained by direct,systematic observation.

Which of the following types of research best lends itself to multivariate analysis-research involving more than two independent variables?

Discuss the unique features identified with the qualitative approach.

Tim would like to compare suicide rates between elite athletes and non-athletes by analyzing suicide notes looking for patterns of feelings of despair or failure.He will most likely use a approach to his study.

Survey data are collected by using all of the following except:

According to sociologist Emile Durkheim,______________suicide occurs among people who are isolated from any social group.

Which of the following methods would most likely be used to study the attitudes of the American public on gun control legalization?

Sociologist Emile Durkheim selected suicide as a research topic because he wanted to demonstrate the importance of society in situations that might appear to be arbitrary acts by individuals.Which step is this in the conventional research model?

Summarize the Hawthorne experiments and explain why this research is important.

With______________research,the goal is scientific objectivity,and the focus is on data that can be measured numerically.

Lucy has volunteered at the local crisis center.While she is performing as a volunteer,she is given permission to gather data on the number of women who report being abused,and the number of women who later participated in counseling.Lucy is using______________as a method of gathering data.