SOSA 2008

    Subdecks (4)

    Cards (195)

    • Logical fallacy
    • Purpose of a study
      • Exploration
      • Description
      • Explanation
    • Middle-range theory
      Focuses on specific aspects of social life and can be tested via hypothesis
    • Positivist
      Social science is seen as the same as natural science research
    • Agency
      One's ability to make their own choices
    • Deductive approach

      From abstract theory to concrete evidence
    • Idiographic
      Focuses on descriptions and specific details about settings
    • Harm to participants
      • Legal
      • Physical
      • Psychological
    • Ordinary explanation
      Clarifying or describing something to illustrate it
    • Ontology
      How we understand the nature of reality
    • Conditions of causality
      • Temporal order
      • Association
      • Elimination of alternatives
    • The literature review includes key findings, methods, hypothesis
    • Scales
      Usually ordinal, common to measure opinion, used in surveys, Likert scale most common
    • Interpret approach
      Human life is different than natural science
    • Empirical generalization
      A statement that summarizes findings based on evidence
    • Inductive approach

      From detailed observations to abstract ideas
    • Types of research
      • Cross-sectional research - a single point in time or snapshot approach
      • Longitudinal research - examines people or units at multiple points in time
      • Time series studies - different people studied at different times
      • Cohort studies - same people studied at different periods who share a common experience
      • Case studies - a small number of cases over time
    • Epistemology
      How we know what we know
    • Steps in the research study
      1. Pick a topic
      2. Focus question
      3. Design a study
      4. Collect data
      5. Analyze data
      6. Interpret data
      7. Inform others
    • Conflict theory
      Society is made up of groups with opposing views
    • Structure
      Factors that may limit someone's ability to make choices
    • Temporal order - the cause must happen before the effect
    • Causal explanation
      Explaining why things occur in terms of cause and effect
    • Meta-analysis - a quantitative review of already existing evidence
    • Index
      Ranks several different dimensions
    • Levels of measurement
      • Nominal
      • Ordinal
      • Interval
      • Ratio
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