Exam 2: Sociological Research Methods

__________ are persons who provide data for analysis through interviews or questionnaires.

__________ are specific strategies or techniques for systematically conducting research.

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

Survey work involves not only immersing oneself into the group or community that the researcher studies but also engaging in dialogue to learn more about social life through ongoing interaction with others.

As a researcher collecting and analyzing data,you would be engaging in __________ if you included such factors as age,sex,race,ethnicity,and educational attainment in deciding what population will be observed or questioned.

Researchers frequently select a representative sample (a small group of respondents) from a larger population (the total group of people) to answer questions about their attitudes,opinions,or behavior.

Researchers in one study systematically analyzed the contents of the notes of suicide victims to determine recurring themes,such as feelings of despair or failure.They hoped to determine if any patterns could be found that would help in understanding why people might kill themselves.This is an example of:

Discuss why sociological research is necessary to go beyond the limitations of commonsense thought.

Joyce wants to do a study of domestic abuse but lacks the time and money to gather her own data.Consequently,she analyzes data previously gathered by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and the Roper Public Opinion Research Center that is related to this topic.In this case,Joyce is conducting:

Sociologists create a(n) __________,which is an explanation of an abstract concept in terms of observable features that are specific enough to measure the variable.

Sociologists who are interested in observing social interactions as it occurs primarily use structured surveys.

__________ refers to changes in a subject's behavior caused by the researcher's presence or by the subject's awareness of being studied.

The Code of Ethics of __________ sets forth certain basic standards that sociologists must follow in conducting research.

Most participant observation research takes the form of a(n) __________,which is often an in-depth,multifaceted investigation of a single event,person,or social grouping.

Eric wants to test his hypothesis that unemployed men are more likely to commit spousal abuse than men who are employed.He is most likely to use a __________ to test his hypothesis.

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

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?

In Silvia Canetto's study,she found that gender differences in suicidal behavior are more closely associated with beliefs about and expectations for men and women rather than purely interpersonal crises.She did not gather data but engaged in:

A researcher wanting to investigate the moral beliefs,traditions,religious views,and customs in regards to physician-assisted suicide would use the ____________ approach.

As a researcher you must decide which population-persons about whom you want to be able to draw conclusions-will be observed or questioned.In __________,every member of an entire population being studied has the same chance of being selected.