Exam 6: Major Research Designs

To conduct a cross-cultural study of job discrimination against women,a sociologist interviews 75 women between the ages of 20 and 40 in an American city,and 75 women in the same age group in a Canadian city.This study would be classified as

A sociologist decides to study the interaction among students in the college's computer center.When the students realize they are under observation,they become shy and reserved in their interactions.This is an example of

An inherent problem in using secondary sources of data is that

A sociologist sets up an experiment on television violence and children.She shows one set of children (group A)violent cartoons and then observes their play.She shows a second set of children (group B)nonviolent cartoons and then observes their play.Which of these groups would be considered the experimental group?

When a sociologist actually joins a group for a period to get an accurate sense of how it operates,the approach is called

Secondary analysis includes a variety of research techniques that use

Sociologists consider secondary analysis to be