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This type of research does not necessarily have an immediate goal
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This type of research does not necessarily have an immediate goal
basic
_______ research seeks to answer theoretically rich questions or to resolve a fundamental intellectual puzzle about social behavior
basic
This type of research seeks to answer a question in the real world or to address a concrete problem
applied
_______ research seeks to answer a concrete problem or to evaluate a policy or program
applied
________ research methods typically collect and analyze data that enable rich description in words or images
qualitative
The most common qualitative method in sociology is _______ research, including ethnography and in-depth interviewing
field
Qualitative methods are suited to gaining in-depth understanding of a relatively _______ number of cases
small
________ research methods rely on data that can be represented by and summarized into numbers
quantitative
__________ methods offer less detail on a particular case but more breadth because they typically focus on a much larger number of cases
quantitative
A study in which data are collected at only one time point
cross-sectional
A type of longitudinal study in which data are collected at multiple time points but from different subjects at each time pointrepeated cross-sectionalA type of longitudinal study in which data are collected on the same subjects at multiple time pointspanelIn a ________ design, the same sample of individuals remain in the research and are studied over timepanelA type of longitudinal study of a group with some common starting point (year of birth, when they became parents)cohortBoth repeated cross-sectional designs and panel designs are examples of _________ study designs, in which data are collected at multiple points in timelongitudinalThe level of social life about which we want to generalizeunit of analysisSome __________ might be families, high schools, corporations, non-profits, religious congregations, cults, governments, and nationsunits of analysisA mistake that researchers make by drawing conclusions about the micro level based on some macro-level analysisecological fallacy________ research documents or describes trends, variations, and patterns of social phenomenadescriptive_________ research tends to answer questions of "how," with the goal of documenting precisely how particular processes and dynamics unfoldexploratoryExploratory research tends to answer questions of _____, with the goal of documenting precisely how particular processes and dynamics unfoldhow_________ research documents the causes and effects of social phenomena, thus addressing questions of "why"explanatoryExplanatory research documents the causes and effects of social phenomena, thus addressing questions of _____why