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Introduction to Sociology provides students with a foundational understanding of the systematic study of society, social institutions, and human behavior. The course explores key sociological concepts, theories, and research methods, examining topics such as culture, socialization, group dynamics, social stratification, institutions, and social change. Students will analyze how social structures and processes influence individuals and communities, fostering critical thinking about social issues, inequality, and the interconnectedness of global societies. This course equips learners with analytical tools to better understand and engage with the complexities of contemporary social life.
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Basics of Social Research Fourth Canadian Edition by W. Lawrence Neuman
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Chapter 1: Doing Social Research
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Q1) Define the following:field research
Answer: A type of qualitative research in which a researcher directly observes the people being studied in a natural setting for an extended period of time.Often,the research combines intensive observing with participation in the people’s activities.
Q2) A type of data-collection technique that most closely follows the logic and principles of natural science,in which researchers create situations and examine their effects on participants,is called
A)content analysis.
B)experimental research.
C)survey research.
D)field research.
E)historical comparative research.
Answer: B
Q3) Define the following:case-study research
Answer: Research,usually qualitative,on one or a small number of cases in which a researcher carefully examines a large number of details about each case.
Q4) Define the following:qualitative data
Answer: Empirical evidence expressed as words,visual images,sounds,or objects.
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Chapter 2: Theory and Social Research
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Q1) Positivists hold that researchers must be able to repeat scientific findings in multiple studies to have a high level of confidence that the findings are true.If a researcher replicates a study and does not get similar findings,one or more of five possibilities must be occurring.Identify at least four of these five reasons why replication might yield different results.
Answer: The student may list any four of the five following reasons for why replication might yield different results:the initial study was an unusual fluke or based on a misguided understanding of the social world; important conditions were present in the initial study,but no one was aware of their significance so they were not specified; the initial study,or the repetition of it,was sloppy-it did not include careful,precise measures; the initial study,or the repetition of it,was improperly conducted-researchers failed to closely follow the highest standards for procedures and techniques,or failed to be completely objective; the repeated study was an unusual fluke
Q2) Define the following:temporal order
Answer: In establishing causation,the cause must come before the effect.
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Chapter 3: Ethics in Social Research
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Q1) The Russell Ogden case is an illustration of a social researcher's obligation to uphold which ethical principle?
A)Do no harm to participants
B)Conflict of interest
C)Informed consent
D)Confidentiality
E)Do not exploit participants for personal gain
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is not a form of scientific misconduct?
A)Falsification of data
B)Significant,unjustified departures from generally accepted scientific practices
C)Plagiarism
D)Deceiving participants
E)Distorting methods of data collection
Answer: E
Q3) Define the following:confidentiality
Answer: Information is collected with participant names attached,but the researcher holds it in confidence or keeps it secret from the public.
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Chapter 4: Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study
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Q1) Define the following:opinion magazines
Q2) What distinguishes a strong from a weak literature review?
Q3) How does an annotated bibliography differ from a literature review?
Q4) Organize and format the following information into an APA style citation.
Title: The ABCs of APA: A guide to the APA referencing style
Journal name: Canadian Review of Sociology
Volume number: 8
Author: John Smith
Year of publication: 2014
Issue number: 3
Page numbers: 279-305
Q5) The following source reference is an example of which formatting style? Cooke,M.(2009).A welfare trap? The duration and dynamics of social assistance use among lone mothers in Canada.Canadian Review of Sociology,46(3),179-206.
Q6) Describe the page-numbering system used in most scholarly journals. Page 6
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Chapter 5: Designing a Study
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Q1) How does the intervening variable relate to the independent variable and dependent variable in a three-variable causal relationship?
A)The intervening variable acts as a dependent variable with respect to the dependent variable and acts as an independent variable toward the dependent variable.
B)The intervening variable acts as a dependent variable with respect to the independent variable and acts as an independent variable toward the dependent variable.
C)The intervening variable acts as an independent variable with respect to the independent variable and acts as an independent variable toward the dependent variable.
D)The intervening variable acts as a dependent variable with respect to the independent variable and acts as a dependent variable toward the dependent variable.
E)The relationship of the intervening variable to the independent and dependent variables is not fixed.
Q2) Define the following:alternative hypothesis
Q3) Define the following:hypothesis
Q4) Define the following:null hypothesis
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Chapter 6: Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement
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Q1) Patrick Paddywagon,owner of the Paddywagon Automobile Supermarket,wanted to find out the kinds of cars he should push to graduating college students.He asked 100 university seniors to rate 10 aspects of 11 models his dealership sold: style,fuel economy,engineering,safety,performance,prestige,comfort,price,selection or options,and interior size.Each car was rated on the 10 aspects from 0 (poor)to 5 (excellent).Each student also rated the importance of each aspect (1 = unimportant,2 = moderate importance,3 = very important).Then each aspect rating was weighed (multiplied)by its importance rating.Next,everything was added together for a score.Each car received a score of 0 to 150.What measurement technique did Patrick use in his study?
A)Interval measure
B)Graphic rating scale
C)Likert scale
D)Predictive scale
E)An index
Q2) Identify and explain the four ways social scientific researchers may increase the reliability of measures.
Q3) How does a researcher use the conceptual definition of a construct in operationalization and conceptualization?
Q4) Define the following:external validity
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Chapter 7: Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling
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Q1) Sam Smith,the CEO of a local TV station,recently conducted a study of TV watchers in his area.He obtained a list of all residential customers from the cable TV company's billing list.He selected customers from the 20 000 households on the billing list by taking every fortieth household.A trained interviewer then visited each household and asked detailed questions about the viewing habits of various family members. What is the sampling frame in Sam Smith's study?
A)Cable television viewers
B)All voters in the community
C)The list of customers from the cable television company
D)All households in the community
E)Adults who own televisions
Q2) What three basic steps need to be taken when drawing a systematic sample?
Q3) Define the following:target population
Q4) What is the main difference between simple random sampling and systematic sampling?
Q5) Define the following:census
Q6) Define the following:theoretical saturation
Q7) Define the following:stratified sampling
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Q8) Define the following:sampling interval
Q9) Define the following:purposive sampling
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Chapter 8: Survey Research
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Q1) Define the following:questionnaire
Q2) Survey respondents are most likely to under-report
A)owning a library card.
B)seeing a psychologist about depression.
C)contributing money to a religious organization.
D)voting in a recent election.
E)attending a night class at a local university.
Q3) Specify the major weakness with the following survey question: "The Soviets cheated on every agreement to freeze nuclear weapons development since 1950.Don't you agree that Canada should give up on establishing a limitations agreement?" 1.Yes 2.Not sure 3.No
A)It is a socially undesirable question.
B)This question is too long.
C)It is a biased or leading question.
D)It is a double-barreled question.
E)The question is ambiguous.
Q4) Define the following:computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)
Q5) What specific ethical issues should a survey researcher be aware of?
Q6) Define the following:wording effects
Q7) What are two advantages and two disadvantages of open questions?
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Chapter 9: Experimental Research
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Q1) If the time between the pretest and the post-test is very short,then
A)the history effect is more likely to occur.
B)the statistical regression effect is less likely to occur.
C)the testing effect is more likely to occur.
D)the maturation effect is less likely to occur.
E)the statistical regression effect is more likely to occur.
Q2) Field experiments,compared to laboratory experiments,generally have
A)lower external validity and higher internal validity.
B)higher external validity and lower internal validity.
C)lower external validity and lower internal validity.
D)higher external validity and higher internal validity.
E)equal external and internal validity.
Q3) Identify the two groups in a simple experiment and specify which one receives the treatment.What determines what the independent and dependent variables are?
Q4) Define the following:design notation
Q5) Define the following:internal validity
Q6) Define the following:experimental group
Q7) Distinguish between random assignment and random selection and then describe how the two are connected.How does random assignment work in practice?
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Chapter 10: Nonreactive Quantitative Research and Secondary Analysis
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Q1) Define the following:unobtrusive measure
Q2) Items found in the trash or on the floor of the theatre after a movie has concluded are examples of A)traces.
B)erosion.
C)accretion.
D)hash marks.
E)vital statistics.
Q3) Explain how constructs are operationalized in quantitative content analysis.Provide an example.
Q4) Define the following:recording sheet
Q5) Identify and describe four specific limitations that a researcher needs to consider when using secondary data.
Q6) What is quantitative content analysis and what is its specific limitation? What three types of research problems is content analysis usually used for?
Q7) Define the following:coding frame
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Q8) Distinguish between manifest and latent coding.Which one is more reliable? Which one is more valid? Explain.
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Chapter 11: Analysis of Quantitative Data
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Q1) Which of the following tells how well a set of variables explains a dependent variable?
A)Z-score
B)Standard deviation
C)Chi-square
D)R-squared
E)Gamma
Q2) Define the following:mean
Q3) What should you see in a scattergram if the bivariate relationship depicted in the scattergram is characterized by a high level of precision?
A)Data points widely spread around the line
B)Data points hugging the line
C)A low number of data points
D)A high number of data points
E)A curved line
Q4) Define the following:Type I error
Q5) Define the following:standard deviation
Q6) Define the following:median
Q7) Define the following:bar chart
Q8) Define the following:statistical significance
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Chapter 12: Qualitative Interviewing
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Q1) Which of the following terms is NOT relevant for qualitative interviews?
A)In-depth interviews
B)Informal interviews
C)Structured interviews
D)Open-ended interviews
E)Ethnographic interviews
Q2) At what point in the interview are direct questions typically used?
A)Beginning
B)Middle
C)End
D)After indirect questions
E)Before indirect questions
Q3) Define the following:incentive
Q4) Define the following:specifying questions
Q5) Specify and describe four features of qualitative interviews that would be considered an advantage over quantitative structured interviews.
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Q7) Define the following:focus group
Q8) Define the following:moderator
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Q9) Define the following:introducing questions
Chapter 15: Analysis of Qualitative Data
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Q1) Professor Shelly Gizmo asked 10 nurses to describe,in as much detail as possible,their duties during the first hour at work during a typical working day.Each nurse was also asked to write down the decisions they made during the course of the first hour of work on a typical day and to sketch out how each decision was related to others.This type of research procedure is known as
A)decision sorting procedure.
B)data reduction analysis.
C)temporal diagram analysis.
D)flowchart and time sequence analysis.
E)time allocation analysis.
Q2) Define the following:axial coding
Q3) Define the following: data reduction
Q4) Coding involves two simultaneous activities.What are they?
A)Analytical data categorization and grounded theory construction
B)Selective data elimination and analytical data sorting
C)Systematic data collection and creative data integration
D)Mechanical data reduction and analytical data categorization
E)Pragmatic data distillation and organic data reconstruction
Q5) Define the following:data analysis
Q6) Define the following:selective coding
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