#4- Sociology Research Methods

A systematic plan for gathering and analyzing observations about the world.

• Study method

• Research plan

• Research method

• woke

What do you have to do before you can assign a value to a variable?

• you have to define the exact variable you're going to measure, and exactly how you will measure it.

• you have to define the exact report you're going to measure, and exactly how you will size it.

• you have to define the exact element you're going to measure, and exactly how you will size it.

• you have to define the exact variable you're going to size, and exactly how you will size it.

What value a variable takes is its ___.

• Size

• Measurement

• Expense

• Cost

How do you make your measurement valid?

• It has to actually measure something that directly reflects the concept that you're trying to study.

• It has to actually work with something that directly works your presumptions.

• It has to actually be important.

• It has to be related with economical issues.

Once you know how to measure your variables, what's next?

• Your hypothesis

• Work on other existing information

• Go ahead and create more measurements

• Relax, you are done.

The variable we think is affecting the change in how people describe themselves.

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• measurable variable

• sizable variable

The variable that you believe is affected by changes.

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• measurable variable

• sizable variable

When two variables move together.

• causation

• symbiosis

• correlation

• coexistence

Which of the followings are the the ways sociologists collect data?

• Experiments

• surveys

• participant observation

• existing resources

• All of the above

A specific group of people in a survey.

• population within a population

• population of research

• population of interest

• population of study