Across
- 3. An ordered series of questions intended to elicit information from respondents.
- 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.
- 6. The outcome variable – the variation you are trying to explain.
- 8. Abstract propositions that explain the social world and make predictions.
- 11. The process of assigning a precise method for measuring a term being examined in a study.
- 14. When variables tend to vary together.
- 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.
- 17. A method category for gathering sociological data that is often used to explore meanings or describe mechanisms embedded in social processes.
- 20. An educated or informed guess
- 22. The measure is capturing or reflecting or assessing what it is you intended.
- 24. The controlled or manipulated variable that you believe has an impact on the proceeding variable.
- 27. A set of standard approaches or tools social scientists follow or use when investigating social phenomenon.
- 28. A method category for gathering sociological data that is already in or may be converted to numeric form.
- 29. The process of recruiting or identifying the members of the target population who will actually be studied.
Down
- 1. These study use data from the controlled environment of a laboratory-based setting.
- 2. The process of engaging with data to identify new understandings and key findings; the goal being knowledge production.
- 5. Social facts -- the process of identifying patterns in social features or phenomenon.
- 7. Researchers using this method compare two or more entities with the intent of learning more about the factors that differ between them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 12. A way of conducting research that starts with empirical observations and then works to form a theory.
- 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.
- 16. When one variable precedes another and has a direct effect.
- 18. Analyzing and critically considering the white coat effects a researcher may be imprinting in their research.
- 19. A systematic analysis of the content in written or recorded material.
- 21. A method that interacts with respondents individually by asking open-ended questions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 26. The issue of being concerned with the relationship of power and the process of knowledge generation.