Exam 2: How Sociologists Do Research

In experiments,members of experimental and control groups are selected using:

In survey research,undercounting,non-response,response bias,wording effects,and ambiguous response categories result in high unreliability.

In addition to participant observation,experiments,and surveys,sociologists also analyze:

Some people believe that it is not important if the United States Bureau of the Census is off by a slight margin.The principal argument used to dismiss calls for different counts is based on ____ of changing how the census is conducted.

Which of the following is usually the first step in the research cycle?

The question of whether a researcher's interpretations are accurate,that is,whether his or her measurements measure what they are supposed to measure,is a question of:

A sociological researcher studying a new religious movement is concerned that his interpretations are correct.This concern with the accuracy of interpretation of the data is known as:

When sociologists decide to measure social class by finding out people's annual income and wealth,they have connected observations of the social world to a variable.This illustrates which research practice?

Explain the research conducted by Lillian Rubin.How did she conduct her research? What did she discover?

When a sociologist conducts an experiment in a natural setting and examines the natural course of social life without intervening,this is called:

Define a variable.

According to Brym and Lie,one of the largest threats to the validity of survey research findings is which of the following?

To conclude that the relationship between two variables is causal,there must be an association between the two variables.The presumed cause must precede the presumed effect,and when a control variable is introduced the original association must disappear.

A neighbor talking to others in a community said that all members of the working class prefer to wear blue jeans rather than slacks.He said this because all working class people whom he knew wore jeans.This statement is an example of knowledge based on: