Sociology Research Methods

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Social Imagination (C. Wright Mills)

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Social Imagination (C. Wright Mills)

the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces

value-free sociology

an ideal whereby researchers identify facts without allowing their own personal beliefs or biases to interfere

the use of control and experimental groups and dependent and independent variables to test causation

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Quantitative variable

A variable that cam be measured and given a numerical value

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A set of statements that explains why the phenomenon occurs.

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Independent Variable

Variables that cause something to occur

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Intensive study of a single group, incident, or community.

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The idea that events occur in a predictable way, with one event leading to another.

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Scientific Method

The recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of a hypothesis.

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a group of people that represents a larger population

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