Exam 2: How Sociologists Do Research

Define a hypothesis.

Set up a research project where you wish to determine the motivations for watching a popular television program.How would you conduct your project?

The median is also known as the arithmetic average of a group of figures.

If a researcher is interested in the effect of television viewing on behavior and randomly selects research subjects who are male and female to determine the consequences of television viewing,television viewing is the:

Deciding which observations to link to which variables is known as operationalization.

One of the most useful ways to display survey data is the ____ table.

The example of OTTFFSSENT demonstrates that:

The first step in sociological research is Selecting a Research Method.

If the association between two variables is accidental and not causal,the relationship between the variables is:

The belief that if a child steps on a crack,his or her mother's back will break is an example of what form of nonscientific thinking?

What do most researchers do with their data files when they finish their research?

Any social concept that can have more than one value is called:

The research practice of deciding which observations to link to which variables is known as:

What is the single biggest problem for sociological research?

Which of the following is the analysis of empirically established cause and effect?

One of the problems in gathering data in social research is:

A researcher who gradually and slowly comes to be accepted by the group she is studying is guarding against:

Lillian Rubin studied how working class men felt about their wives working in the paid labor force in Families on the Fault Line.By engaging in participant observation she revealed that the economic dislocation of the workers influenced not only how they felt about women working but also how they felt about:

Because a mean may be influenced by high and low values,it may not be an accurate depiction of the "middle" of a set of scores.If you order the scores from lowest to highest and take the middle score,you may have a better sense of the midpoint of the distribution.If you do this,you will have calculated the:

During a research study on views toward crime,a sociologist was careful to code the names of the subjects rather than use their real names in the research.This is important because: