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Details Title: social research Description: chapters 1,2,3,4 Total Flash Cards: 39 Created: 02/06/2007 06:25:06	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Methodology Definition How research is conducted and how you know it is valid Term Sampling - probability - nonprobability Definition Drawing inferences from smaller test group - random - non random (snowball or convinience, people around you) Term Analysis - quantitative - qualitative Definition structured or unstructured, statistical data vs patterns Term Ideographic Methodology Definition lists all the reasons for a cause of a condition or event, every idiosynchratic reason Term Nomothetic Definition identify a few causal factors that impact a class of conditions or events Term Inductive Definition Specific to general, data to theory, collect data - find pattern - create theory Term Deductive Definition General to specific, theory to data, specific hypothesis, find data to test Term Pure vs Applied Knowledge Definition Pure is knowledge driven by theory, applied is not concerned with advancing theory Term science Definition method of inquiry Term scientific paradigm Definition broad theoretical idea, the way you approach a topic Term Macro vs Micro Definition organizational vs individual Term Null hypothesis Definition disproves hypothesis Term Theory Definition Explanation, how concepts are related Term Nominal definition Definition common sense definition Term Operational Definition Definition describes how concepts are measured (i.e. crime = breaking the law vs. crime = when people report it) Term Philosophical assumptions: name three types and why they can't be tested Definition ethical, epistemological (what is valid knowledge?), metaphysical (ways of the universe) Term Proposition Definition a statement that explains how concepts are related Term Verification Definition Confirm a proposed theory using data Term Falsification Definition disproving a proposition by disconfirming the proposition Term Voluntary participation: things to do Definition can't coerce someone to do it, must tell them the risks, must tell them afterwards if it's participant observation Term Anonymity Definition can't connect response back to the participant Term Confidentiality Definition know who said what response, cannot reveal it Term IRB Definition reviews proposals, whether or not they meet the standards Term Three purposes of research: Definition Exploration, description, explanation Term ____ precedes _____ Definition Cause precedes effects Term Correlation Definition statistical relationship between variables Term Necessary clause Definition must be there in order for effect to take place Term sufficient clause Definition if clause is there, result guarenteed. Might happen anyway. Term Nomothetic Explanation ; three Definition correlation (relationship between variables), time order (kid's views on gun laws influence parents or vice versa?), nonspurious (correlation must be genuine) Term Units of Analysis Definition who or what is being studied, groups or individuals or organization or social artifacts Term Social artifact Definition product of person or people Term Types of units of analysis Definition individuals, groups, organizations, social interactions, social artifacts Term ecological fallacy Definition making individual level assumptions from group data (durkheim and suicides) Term Reductionism Definition explain a particular phenomenon in terms of easier to understand concepts, not wrong but too limited Term sociobiology Definition suggests that all social phenomena can be explained in terms of biological factors Term Cross-sectional studies Definition observations of a sample/cross section at one point in time (can't technically determine causation, but easier) Term Longitudal Study Definition observations over an extended period of time Term Three types of longitudal studies Definition Trend (change in population), cohort (change in specific population), panel (change in same set of people) Term Challenges in Longitudal Studies Definition trend/cohort - must pay attention to sampling, cohort - sampling can be difficult, panel - difficulty retaining same people