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| 5 Steps in the research process: |
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| Deciding on the problem, Reviewing the literature, Formulating research questions, Selecting a method, Analyzing the data. |
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| Emile Durkheim's Hypotheses of Suicide: |
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| Suicide rates should be higher for unmarried people, people without children, people with higher levels of education and in Protestanc communities. |
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| Characteristics of individuals, groups or entire societies that can vary from one case to another. |
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| 3 Basic Research Methods of Sociology: |
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| Observation, Experiments and Survey Research. |
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| The sociologist is both an objective observer and a participant. This method describes the quality of life of the participants. |
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| Measure behavior but intrude as little as possible into actual social settings. |
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| Allow the researcher to manipulate an independent variable to measure changes in a dependent variable. |
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| Involve a treatment group of people who participate and a control group of people who do not. Observes subjects in their natural setting. |
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| Ask people to give precise information about their behavior and attitudes. These make it possible to generalize from a small sample of respondents to an entire population. |
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| 3 Rights of Survey Respondents: |
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| Right of Privacy, Confidentiality and Informed Consent. |
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| The right to define when and on what terms one's activities should be reealed to the general public. |
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| The assurance that no information can be traced to a respondent. |
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| Statements about what respondents are being asked and how their responses will be used. |
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| 3 Ways of Analyzing Data: |
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| Survey Reasearch, Frequency Distribution and Percent Analysis. |
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| Generates numerical data which is displayed in tables. |
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| Indicate how many observations fall within each category of a variable. |
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| Permits comparisons between categories by transforming absolute numbers into a proportion as a part of 100. |
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| A set of interrelated concepts that seeks to explain the causes of a phenomenon. |
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| A statement that specifies a relationship between two or more variables that can be tested through empirical observation. |
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| The variable that a hypothesis seeks to explain. |
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| A variable that the researcher believes causes a change in another vairable. |
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| The unintended effect that results from the attention given to subjects in an experimental situation. |
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| A survey administered to a selection of respondents drawn from a specific population. |
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| A question that requires the respondent to choose among a predetermined set of answers. |
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| A question that does not require the respondent to choose from a predermined set of answers. The respondent may answer in his or her own words. |
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| A specific relationship between two variables. |
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