SOCIOL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: American Sociological Association, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
5 Apr 2017
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Case study: in-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual. Code of ethics: a set of guidelines that the american sociological association has established to foster ethical research and professionally responsible scholarship in sociology. Content analysis: applying a systematic approach to record and value information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand. Control group: an experimental group that is not exposed to the independent variable. Correlation: when a change in one variable coincides with a change in another variable, but does not necessarily indicate causation. Empirical evidence: evidence corroborated by direct experience and/or observations. Ethnography: observing a complete social setting and all that it entails. Experiment: the testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions. Field research: gathering data from a natural environment w/o doing a lab experiment or a survey. Hawthorne effect: when study subjects behave in a certain manner due to their awareness of being observed by a researcher.
