Exam 2: Understanding Families Through Research and Theory

While research ethics is concerned with the relationship between the researcher and the research subjects, ________ is concerned with the relationship between researchers and the truth in reporting their findings.

The process by which social science researchers formulate questions concerning social and individual phenomena and seek out answers is called what?

Researchers Sellitz, Wrightsman, and Cook (1976) described three purposes of using observational research. Please list and briefly explain each.

This theory is one that embraces the conflict approach to understanding and analyzing the roles of marriage and family in perpetuating inequalities in the male/female relationships. Because most societies the world over promote male domination in the home and in the workplace, it focuses on the plight of women.

________ research is the scholarly discipline used to examine human society and relationships.