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| 3107449423 | Concrete Experience | Is obtained by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, hearing | 0 | |
| 3107453362 | Percepts | The smallest bits of concrete experience | 1 | |
| 3107455233 | Patterns | Collection of related percepts | 2 | |
| 3107465905 | Abstract experience | The imaginary world of the mind | 3 | |
| 3107467271 | Concepts | The abstract terms used to organize concrete experience | 4 | |
| 3107474555 | Propositions | Ideas that result from finding the relationship between concepts | 5 | |
| 3107484780 | Sample | part of the population of research interest that is selected for analysis | 6 | |
| 3107487558 | Population | The entire group about which the researcher wants to generalize | 7 | |
| 3107502525 | Operationalization | The processes of translating concepts into variables and propositions into hypotheses | 8 | |
| 3107509436 | Variable | Measure of a concept that has more than one value or score | 9 | |
| 3107514736 | Hypothesis | Testable form of a proposition | 10 | |
| 3107516235 | Experiment | Is a carefully controlled artificial situation that allows researchers to isolate hypothesized causes and measure their effects percisely | 11 | |
| 3107523404 | Randomization | In an experiment involved assigning each individual by chance processes to the group that will be exposed to the presumed cause or to the group that will not be exposed to the presumed cause | 12 | |
| 3107537497 | Dependent variable | is the presumed effect in cause and effect scenario | 13 | |
| 3107538983 | Independent variable | is the presumed cause in a cause and effect scenario | 14 | |
| 3107542023 | Reliability | is the degree to which a measurement procedure yeilds consistent results | 15 | |
| 3107545550 | Validity | is the degree to which a measure actually measures what it is intended to measure | 16 | |
| 3108823474 | Survey | Sociologists ask respondents questions about knowledge, or behaviour, either face to face or telephone, or paper and pencil format | 17 | |
| 3108846999 | Contingency Table | is a cross classification of cases by at least two variables that allows you to see how, if at all, the variables are associated | 18 | |
| 3108850908 | Relationship | between two variables exists if the value of one variable changes with the value of the other | 19 | |
| 3108856003 | Control variables | Identify the context for the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables | 20 | |
| 3108873841 | Spurious Relationship | exists between an independent and a dependent variables when a control variable causes change in both the independent and dependent variables | 21 | |
| 3108885167 | Probability sample | The units have a known and nonzero chance of being selected | 22 | |
| 3108887705 | Field Research | research based on the observation of people in their natural settings | 23 | |
| 3108894255 | Detached Observation | involves classifying and counting the behaviour of interest according to a predetermined scheme | 24 | |
| 3108902026 | Reactivity | Occurs when the presence of a researcher causes the observed people to conceal certain things or act artifically to impress | 25 | |
| 3108911500 | Participant Observation | involves carefully observing peoples face to face interactions and participating in their lives over a long period of time, understanding what motivates them | 26 | |
| 3108935536 | Existing documents, official statistics | Created by people other than the researcher for purposes other than sociological research | 27 | |
| 3108944701 | Experiments, surveys, participant observation, analysis of documents and official statistics | Four research methods: | 28 | |
| 3108982922 | Inexpensive, convenient, | Strengths of analysis of existing documents and official statistics | 29 | |
| 3108989789 | biases | Weakness of analysis of existing documents and official statistics | 30 | |
| 3109027139 | High reliability | Strength for experiments | 31 | |
| 3109028722 | Low validity | Weakness for experiments | 32 | |
| 3109032620 | High reliability | Strength for survey | 33 | |
| 3109035778 | Low validity | Weakness for survey | 34 | |
| 3109042468 | Allows researchers to get in the heads of subjects | Strength for Participant observation | 35 |
