Sociology 110: Chapter 2 Quiz

Which of the following concepts refers to deciding exactly what is to be measured when assigning value to a variable?

Operationalizing

What concept refers to any change in a subject's behavior that is caused by the awareness of being studied?

The Hawthorne effect

If you were to conduct sociological research that closely follows the logic of science, which research method would you most likely use?

The experiment

_________ refers to measuring exactly what one intends to measure.

Validity

Imagine that you were going to measure the age of a number of respondents taking part in a survey. As you record the data, you are using the concept "age" as ________

a variable

"A mental construct that represents some aspect of the world in a somewhat simplified form" is the definition of a ________

concept

If you have been criticized for "androcentricity" in your research, you are being criticized for ________

doing the research from a male perspective.

Sociologists cannot precisely predict any person's behavior because _______

human behavior is highly complex and has many causes.

Sociologists use the term "empirical evidence" to refer to ________

information we can verify with our senses.

Science can be defined as a ________

logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation.

The sociological perspective coupled to research reveals that ________

much of what passes for "common sense" in the United States turns out to be at least partly wrong.

A small number of people that are used to represent a much larger population is called a ________

sample.

Two variables are said to display correlation if ________

they vary together.

Which research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview?

A survey