Ch 1 Cont.
Terms
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- Positivist Sociology
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=uses the logic of science to understand how variables are related
- tries to establish cause and effect
-demands that researches try to be objective - Critical Sociology
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=uses research to bring about social change
-focus on inequality
-rejects the principle of objectivity, claiming that all research is political - 1positivist sociology
- study of society based on systematic observation of social behavior
- science
- logical system that develops knowledge from direct systematic observation
- emperical evidevence
- information we can verify with out senses
- concept
- mental construct that represents some aspect of the world in a simplified form
- variable
- a concept whose value changes from case to case
- measurement
- procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific case
- reliability
- consistency in measurement
- validity
- actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure
- correlation
- a relationship in which two or more variables change together
- cause and effect
- a relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
- interpretive sociology
- the study of society that focues on discovering the meanings people attach to their social world
- gender
- the personal traits and social positions that members of society attach to being female or male
- research method
- a systematic plan for doing research
- experiment
- a research method for investigating cause and effect under highly controlled conditions
- survey
- a research method in which subjects respond to a series of statements or questioning on a questionnaire or in an interview
- participant observation
- a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities
- stereotype
- a simplified description applied to every prison in some category