Soc Ch 1 & 2

Why is choosing a random sample an effective way to select participants for a survey?

• Participants do not know they are part of a study

• The researcher has no control over who is in the study

• It is larger than an ordinary sample

• Everyone has the same chance of being part of the study

Which famous early sociologist is known for promoting (and defining) the concept of value neutrality?

• Charles Horton Cooley

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

A(n) ______ is a testable educated guess about predicted outcomes between two or more variables.

• Theory

• Sample

• Experiment

• Hypothesis

_____ is the concept in terms of the physical or concrete steps it takes to objectively measure it.

• Field Research

• Ethnography

• Operational Definition

• Scientific Method

We would describe a variable that causes a change in another variable as the _____.

• Sample

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

• Institutional Ethnography

When people change their behavior because they know they are being studied, this is called the ____

• Uncertainty principle

• Hawthorne effect

• Study shift

• Observational bias

Karl Marx focused on the struggle between the bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production) and the proletariat (workers). Both groups of people compete for the same limited resources. This is an example of _____.

• Functionalism

• Feminist Perspective

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Conflict Theory

Schools socialize children by teaching them the values and beliefs of society. This is an example of ______.

• Manifest function

• Conflict perspective

• Latent function

• Antipositivism