Chapter 2: Methods

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Across
  1. 3. An ordered series of questions intended to elicit information from respondents.
  2. 4. The goal of this method is to uncover the meanings people give to their own social actions, and those of others, by observing their behavior in practice.
  3. 6. The outcome variable – the variation you are trying to explain.
  4. 8. Abstract propositions that explain the social world and make predictions.
  5. 11. The process of assigning a precise method for measuring a term being examined in a study.
  6. 14. When variables tend to vary together.
  7. 15. A way of conducting research that starts with a theory, forms a hypothesis, makes empirical observations, and then analyzes the data to confirm, reject, or modify the original theory.
  8. 17. A method category for gathering sociological data that is often used to explore meanings or describe mechanisms embedded in social processes.
  9. 20. An educated or informed guess
  10. 22. The measure is capturing or reflecting or assessing what it is you intended.
  11. 24. The controlled or manipulated variable that you believe has an impact on the proceeding variable.
  12. 27. A set of standard approaches or tools social scientists follow or use when investigating social phenomenon.
  13. 28. A method category for gathering sociological data that is already in or may be converted to numeric form.
  14. 29. The process of recruiting or identifying the members of the target population who will actually be studied.
Down
  1. 1. These study use data from the controlled environment of a laboratory-based setting.
  2. 2. The process of engaging with data to identify new understandings and key findings; the goal being knowledge production.
  3. 5. Social facts -- the process of identifying patterns in social features or phenomenon.
  4. 7. Researchers using this method compare two or more entities with the intent of learning more about the factors that differ between them.
  5. 9. When there is a third unseen factor affecting the relationship between A and B, often making is seem as though A is causing B, even though it is not.
  6. 10. A way of researching sociology that is critical of the methods used; taking all subjects seriously rather than privileging one type of data, experience, or worldview over another.
  7. 12. A way of conducting research that starts with empirical observations and then works to form a theory.
  8. 13. Scientists using this method collect data from written reports, newspaper articles, journals, transcripts, television programs, diaries, artwork, and other artifacts that date back to the period they want to study.
  9. 16. When one variable precedes another and has a direct effect.
  10. 18. Analyzing and critically considering the white coat effects a researcher may be imprinting in their research.
  11. 19. A systematic analysis of the content in written or recorded material.
  12. 21. A method that interacts with respondents individually by asking open-ended questions.
  13. 23. When you think A has a direct relationship on B in that it changes B, but it’s actually B that is changing A.
  14. 25. The likelihood of repeating the results using the same measures in future studies – how probable it is that you will replicate the results with a replicated method.
  15. 26. The issue of being concerned with the relationship of power and the process of knowledge generation.