Is a speculative statement about the relationship between two or more factors known as variables?

What is the scientific method?

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• What is a variable sociology?

A systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.

What is an operational definition?

An explanation about an abstract term that is specific enough to allow a researcher to assess the concept.

A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.

A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.

What is an independent variable?

In a causal relationship that causes or influences a change in a second variable.

What is a dependent variable?

In a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.

Relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence, with one event leading to the other.

A relationship between two variables in which a change in one coincides with a change in the other.

A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.

A sample for which every member of an entire population has the same chance of being selected.

The degree to which a measure or scale truly reflects the phenomenon under study.

The extent to which a measure produces consistent results.

What is a control variable?

A factor that is held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.

What is a research design?

A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.

A study, generally in the form of an interview or questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act.

What is quantitative research?

Collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.

What is qualitative research?

Relies on what is seen in field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.

A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation and by closely watching a group or community.

The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation,

An artificially created situation that allows a researcher to manipulate variables.

What is an experimental group?

The subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable introduced by a researcher.

The subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.

What is the hawthorne effect?

The unintended influence that observers of experiments can have on their subjects.

What is secondary analysis?

A variety of research techniques that make use of previously collected and publicly accessible information and data.

What is content analysis?

The systematic coding and objective recording data, guided by some rationale.

What is a code of ethics?

The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.

What is value neutrality?

Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.

A table that shows the relationship between two or more variables.

What are the steps in the scientific method?

1. Defining the problem 2. Reviewing the literature 3. formulating the hypothesis 4. selecting the research design/collecting/analyzing data 5. developing the conclusion.

What are the most used existing sources in sociological research?

Does a measure or scale truly reflect what is being studied?

How much a measure produces consistent results?

Used content analysis to see how advertisements in 1979 showed women as inferior to men.

Called attention to mainstream society treating the lives of african americans as a problem.