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| Lois Benjamin's research on the life experiences of high-achieving African American suggests that.. |
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| racism remains a burden even among privileged African Americans |
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| Science can be defined as a... |
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| logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation. |
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| Sociologists use the term "empirical evidence" to refer to... |
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| information that we can verify with our senses. |
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| The sociological perspective reveals that... |
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| much of what passes for "common sense" in the United States turns out to be at least partly wrong. |
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| What term is defined in the text as "a mental construct that represents some aspect of the world in a somewhat simplified form"? |
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| Imagine that you were going to measure the age of a number that respondents taking part in a survey. As you record the data, you are using the concept "age"as.. |
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| If you were trying to measure the "social class" of various people, you would have to keep in mind that... |
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| it is necessary to specify exactly what you are measuring. |
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| What process involves deciding exactly what is to be measured when assigning a value to a variable? |
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| What is the term for the value that occurs most often in a series of numbers? |
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| what term refers to the arithmetic average of a series of numbers? |
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| What term refers to the value that occurs midway in a series of numbers (that is, the middle case)? |
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examine the following numbers in a series:
1 2 3 4 10
What is the median value? |
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| In the process of measurement, reliability refers to... |
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| whether repeating the measurement yields consistent results. |
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| Which of the concepts listed below refers to measuring exactly what one intends to measure? |
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| With regard to the process of measurement, which of the following statements is true? |
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| for measurement to be valid, it must be reliable |
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| A theory states that increasing a person's formal higher education results in increased earnings over the individual's lifetime. In this theory, "higher education" is the... |
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| Two variables are said to display correlation if... |
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| An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by a third variable is called... |
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| The ability to neutralize the effect of one variable in order to assess the relationship between two other variables is called... |
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| Which of the following is true about cause-and-effect relationships in the social world? |
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| Most patterns of behavior are caused by many factors. |
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| Three of the following statements below are part of the definition of a cause-and-effect relationship: |
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::The independent variable must come before the dependent variable in time::
::The two variables must display correlation::
::There must be no evidence that the correlation is spurious:: |
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| The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher must... |
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| try to adopt a stance of personal neutrality toward the outcome of the research. |
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| The sociologist who called on his colleagues to be "value-free" in the conduct of their research. |
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| Imagine that you are repeating research done by someone else in order to asses the accuracy. You are doing what? |
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| Sociologists cannot precisely predict any person's behavior because |
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::Human behavior is highly complex and has many causes::
::social patters that are found in one time and place may not be found in others::
::humans may respond to the presence of an observer in unexpected ways.:: |
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| Interpretive sociology is sociology that... |
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| focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior |
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| Critical sociology seeks to bring about desirable social change |
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| Critical sociology can best be described as what approach? |
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| What approach rejects Max Weber's goal that researchers should be value-free? |
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