In a _________, everyone in the target population had the same chance of being
included in the study - ️️Random sample
If the questions that you ask the people taking part in your study are not ____________,
you will end up with biased answers - ️️Neutral
Talcott Parsons was influential...
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In a _________, everyone in the target population had the same chance of being
included in the study - ✔️✔️Random sample
If the questions that you ask the people taking part in your study are not ____________,
you will end up with biased answers - ✔️✔️Neutral
Talcott Parsons was influential in - ✔️✔️Shifting sociology from reform to theory
The subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable make up
the - ✔️✔️Experimental group
In the research model, specifying what it is that you want to learn about a topic is the
stage of - ✔️✔️Defining the problem
In the eyes of ______, society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work
together - ✔️✔️Functionalist
Capitalism becoming the world's dominant economic system is known as - ✔️✔️The
globalization of capitalism
A(n) ________ is the collection of data by having people answer a series of questions -
✔️✔️Survey
___________ is a precise way to measure a variable - ✔️✔️An operational definition
Karl Marx believed that the engine of human history is - ✔️✔️Class conflict
Durkhiem's concept of ___________ refers to the degree to which people are tied to
their social groups - ✔️✔️Social integration
___________ is a feeling of trust between researchers and the people they are studying
- ✔️✔️Rapport
Reliability refers to - ✔️✔️the extent to which research produces consistent or
dependable results
In sociological research, gender - ✔️✔️is influential
In a control group, subjects are - ✔️✔️not exposed to independent variable
, The __________, according to Marx, were the exploited workers who did not own the
means if production - ✔️✔️proletariat
The independent variable causes a change in the - ✔️✔️dependent variable
Robert Merton used the term _____ for the harmful consequences of people's actions. -
✔️✔️Dysfunction
In secondary analysis, researchers analyze data collected by - ✔️✔️Others
Police reports, photographs, and videos are examples of __________ used by
researchers - ✔️✔️Documents
A world within the larger world of the dominant culture is a - ✔️✔️Subculture
Some of the values and norms of a _____ place it at odds with the dominant culture. -
✔️✔️Counterculture
Which statement about the origin of values is true? - ✔️✔️Values are unrelated to the
conditions of society
"In God We Trust" appears on American money. This reflects the the core value of -
✔️✔️Religiosity
The human potential movement reflects the emerging _________ value. - ✔️✔️Self-
fulfillment
In cultural leveling - ✔️✔️cultures become more and more similar to one another
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that - ✔️✔️language has ways of looking at the
world embedded within it
_______ would be part of material culture - ✔️✔️Hairstyles
________ refer(s) to values, norms, of other cultural traits found everywhere -
✔️✔️Cultural universals
The core value of education has - ✔️✔️changed over the years, until today a college
education is considered an appropriate goal for most Americans.
If you kill another person, you have violated a society's - ✔️✔️Mores
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