Methods and Research

A. ethnography
B. field research
C. an international approach
D. content analysis
E. comparative approach

A. tactful
B. creative
C. unobtrusive
D. fluent in several languages
E. discreet

A. secondary observer
B. participant-as-observer
C. complete participant
D. ethnographer
E. social scientist

A. historical research
B. survey research
C. participant observation
D. experimental design

A. review the evidence
B. define the research problem
C. create a research design
D. carry out a research design

A. survey research
B. ethnography
C. focus groups
D. biographical research

A. research findings feed back into society and as a result may change it
B. research findings empower the general public making them more confident
C. research funders have control over research findings and who has access
D. sociologists learn more about the society they live in

A. philosophical and progressive
B. complex and against commonsense
C. experimental and statistical
D. valid and reliable

A. the investigator being committed to a particular ideology
B. the research team prejudging the meaning of the data
C. the data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research
D. interpretations being applied to the results

A. multiple regression
B. causal mechanism
C. spurious correlation
D. multinomial distribution