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Ethical research requires that the researcher disclose to participants all possible risks.

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Correct Answer: True

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Theory without research is abstract and speculative.

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Correct Answer: True

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Individuals and groups who want to change laws to reflect their own values and beliefs are known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Moral entrepreneurs

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We call a sample ______ when it resembles the population we are studying and about whom we want to draw conclusions.

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Correct Answer: Representative

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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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Correct Answer: Self-fulfilling prophecy

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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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Correct Answer: Spurious

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The social construction of reality is based on the assumption that knowledge is a(n) ______ creation.

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Correct Answer: Human

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This problem occurs when the very act of intruding into people’s lives influences the phenomenon being studied.

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Correct Answer: Reactivity

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This type of sociological research includes conducting interviews and ethnographies.

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Correct Answer: Qualitative research

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A euphemism is a seemingly innocuous expression substituted for one that might be ______.

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Correct Answer: Offensive

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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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Correct Answer: True

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Any characteristic, attitude, behavior, or event that can take on two or more values or attributes is known as

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Correct Answer: Variable

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___________ 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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Correct Answer: Unobtrusive research

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Set of statements or propositions that seeks to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life is known as

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Correct Answer: Theory

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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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Correct Answer: Social

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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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Correct Answer: True

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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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Correct Answer: True

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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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Correct Answer: True

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Typical of the whole population being studied is called

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Correct Answer: Representative

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_______ 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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Correct Answer: Reactivity

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_________ is a sociological research based on the collection of numeric data that uses precise statistical analysis

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Correct Answer: Quantitative research

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_________ 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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Correct Answer: Qualitative research

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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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Correct Answer: True

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__________ is a form of field research in which the researcher interacts with subjects, sometimes hiding his or her identity

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Correct Answer: Participant observation

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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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Correct Answer: Nonparticipant observation

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Groups that work to have their moral concerns translated into ____ is called.. Moral entrepreneurs.

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Correct Answer: Law

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Measurable event, characteristic, or behavior commonly thought to reflect a particular concept is known as indicator

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Correct Answer: True

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Variable presumed to cause or influence the dependent variable is called

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Correct Answer: Independent variable

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Incorrigible proposition is ______ cultural belief that cannot be proved wrong no matter what happens to dispute it

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Correct Answer: Unquestioned

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Researchable prediction that specifies the relationship between two or more variables is called

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Correct Answer: Hypotheses

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Historical analysis is a form of social research that relies on existing historical documents as a source of data

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Correct Answer: True

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Type of social research in which the researcher observes events as they actually occur is called

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Correct Answer: Field research

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Research method designed to elicit some sort of behavior, typically conducted under closely controlled laboratory circumstances is called

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Correct Answer: Experiment

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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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Correct Answer: Empirical research

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Variable that is assumed to be caused by, or to change as a result of, the independent variable is called

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Correct Answer: Dependent variable

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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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Correct Answer: Unobtrusive research

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Type of unobtrusive research that relies on data gathered earlier by someone else for some other purpose is called

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Correct Answer: Analysis of existing data

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