1. Ethical research requires that the researcher disclose to participants all possible risks.
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True
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2. Theory without research is abstract and speculative.
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True
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3. Individuals and groups who want to change laws to reflect their own values and beliefs are known as ______.
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Moral entrepreneurs
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4. We call a sample ______ when it resembles the population we are studying and about whom we want to draw conclusions.
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Representative
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5. A prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, causes an expected event to occur is known as a(n) ______.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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6. When two variables may not be related at all, but seem associated with one another due to the effect of a third variable, this is known as a(n) ______ relationship.
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Spurious
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7. The social construction of reality is based on the assumption that knowledge is a(n) ______ creation.
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Human
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8. This problem occurs when the very act of intruding into people’s lives influences the phenomenon being studied.
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Reactivity
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9. This type of sociological research includes conducting interviews and ethnographies.
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Qualitative research
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10. A euphemism is a seemingly innocuous expression substituted for one that might be ______.
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Offensive
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11. Method of studying society that uses photographs, video recordings, and film either as means of gathering data or as sources of data about social life is called visual sociology
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True
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12. Any characteristic, attitude, behavior, or event that can take on two or more values or attributes is known as
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Variable
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13. ___________ is research technique in which the researcher, without direct contact with the subjects, examines the evidence of social behavior that people create or leave behind
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Unobtrusive research
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14. Set of statements or propositions that seeks to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life is known as
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Theory
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15. Survey is a form of _____ research in which the researcher asks subjects a series of questions verbally, online, or on paper
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Social
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16. A false association between two variables that is actually due to the effect of some third variable is called Spurious relationship
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True
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17. Social construction of reality is a process through which the members of a society discover, make known, reaffirm, and alter a collective version of facts, knowledge, and “truth
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True
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18. Self-fulfilling prophecy is assumption or prediction that in itself causes the expected event to occur, thus seeming to confirm the prophecy’s accuracy
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True
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19. Typical of the whole population being studied is called
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Representative
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20. _______ is a problem associated with certain forms of research in which the very act of intruding into people’s lives may influence the phenomenon being studied
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Reactivity
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21. _________ is a sociological research based on the collection of numeric data that uses precise statistical analysis
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Quantitative research
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22. _________ research is. Sociological research based on non numeric information (text, written words, phrases, symbols, observations) that describes people, actions, or events in social life
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Qualitative research
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23. Capable only of identifying those forces that have a high likelihood, but not a certainty, of influencing human action is called Probabilistic
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True
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24. __________ is a form of field research in which the researcher interacts with subjects, sometimes hiding his or her identity
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Participant observation
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25. Form of field research in which the researcher observes people without directly interacting with them and without letting them know that they are being observed is called
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Nonparticipant observation
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26. Groups that work to have their moral concerns translated into ____ is called.. Moral entrepreneurs.
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Law
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27. Measurable event, characteristic, or behavior commonly thought to reflect a particular concept is known as indicator
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True
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28. Variable presumed to cause or influence the dependent variable is called
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Independent variable
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29. Incorrigible proposition is ______ cultural belief that cannot be proved wrong no matter what happens to dispute it
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Unquestioned
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30. Researchable prediction that specifies the relationship between two or more variables is called
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Hypotheses
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31. Historical analysis is a form of social research that relies on existing historical documents as a source of data
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True
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32. Type of social research in which the researcher observes events as they actually occur is called
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Field research
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33. Research method designed to elicit some sort of behavior, typically conducted under closely controlled laboratory circumstances is called
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Experiment
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34. Research that operates from the ideological position that questions about human behavior can be answered only through controlled, systematic observations in the real world is called
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Empirical research
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35. Variable that is assumed to be caused by, or to change as a result of, the independent variable is called
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Dependent variable
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36. Content analysis is a form of ______ that studies the content of recorded messages, such as books, speeches, poems, songs, television shows, websites, and advertisements
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Unobtrusive research
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37. Type of unobtrusive research that relies on data gathered earlier by someone else for some other purpose is called
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Analysis of existing data
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