Category: Methods and Research

A. an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
B. a piece of research conducted in a laboratory
C. a piece of research trying out new methods
D. an attempt to deceive participants about the research’s true purpose

A. they are often undertaken by specialist agencies
B. they offer an appearance of precision
C. the data is easy to quantify and analyses
D. large numbers of people can be studied

A. recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work
B. stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects
C. emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data
D. all of the above

A. measures of variation
B. measures of central tendency
C. measures of enumeration
D. measures of correlation
E. measures of coefficients

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

A. observation research
B. a survey
C. content analysis
D. an experiment

A. they are often undertaken by specialist agencies
B. they offer an appearance of precision
C. the data is easy to quantify and analyses
D. large numbers of people can be studied

A. sample
B. respondents
C. focus group
D. population

A. internal consistency
B. correlation
C. theory
D. time order
E. elimination of spuriousness

A. Basic understanding
B. Practical use
C. Applied use
D. None of these