The test questions will come directly from this study guide. The exam will include:
20 multiple choice (3 points each), 10 matching (2 points each), 1 essay (20 points)
The questions below come from the textbook: Many of the terms/questions listed here were covered in the lectures too.
1.
Know the definitions of the following terms, and be able to give an
example of each (where applicable).
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Data |
Exploratory Research |
Causal Relationship/Explanation |
Ideal Type |
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Qualitative Data |
Field Research |
Deductive |
Ideology |
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Quantitative Data |
Historical-Comparative Research |
Inductive |
Feminist Research |
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Scientific Method |
Content Analysis |
Generalization |
Positivism |
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Social Theory |
Survey Research |
Grounded Theory |
Interpretative Science |
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Action Research |
Needs Assessment |
Functionalism |
Critical Science |
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Applied Sociology |
Social Impact Assessment |
Symbolic Interactionism |
Relativism |
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Basic Sociology |
Longitudinal Sample (study) |
Conflict Theory |
Value Free Science |
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Descriptive Research |
Cohort Sample (study) |
Negative Relationship |
Verstehen |
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Evaluation Research |
Panel Sample (study) |
Positive Relationship |
Paradigm |
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Experimental Research |
Case study |
Prediction |
Extended Case Method |
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Explanatory Research |
Association |
Temporal Order |
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2. Answer the following review questions at the back of Chapters 1-4:
Chapter 1: Questions 2, 6, 8
Chapter 2: Questions 1-5, 10
Chapter 3: Questions 4, 7, 9, 10
Chapter 4: Questions 1, 8
The questions below are from the lectures/course discussion.
1.
Know the definitions of the following terms, and give an example of each.
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Sociology |
Variable |
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Social Problem |
Sample |
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Social Change |
Research Design |
2. What is the rationale behind quantitative research? Behind qualitative research?
3. Why do we need a research design to answer a research question?
4. What are some characteristics of a good research question?
5. What kinds of questions are usually best answered with quantitative research methods? What kinds of questions are usually best answered with qualitative research methods?
6. Your client, the CEO of an information technology firm, wants to know why employees are leaving her company. What method would you use to help answer her question? How would you use this method?
7. A local PTA hires you to identify what services and programs parents would like the PTA to provide. What method would you use to help answer their question? How would you use this method?
8. Your client is a local public high school with declining SAT scores. Large percentages of children who attend this school are from one-parent homes, and many are children of color. Use each functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism to explain the decline in SAT scores and to make suggestions on how to improve the scores.