Chapter 2 - T&R (P3)

Question 1

Hyperconsumption

Answer 1

Consumption of more than one needs, really wants, and can afford

Question 2

Independent variable

Answer 2

In a experiment, a condition that can be independent manipulated by the researcher with the goal of producing a change in some other variable

Question 3

Inferential statistics

Answer 3

Numerical data that allow researchers to use data from a small group to speculate with some level of certainty about a larger group

Question 4

Intersectionality

Answer 4

The confluence, or intersection, of various social statues and the inequality and oppression associated with each in combination with others; the idea that members of any given minority group are affected by the nature of their posterior in other systems or other forms of social inequality

Question 5

Interview

Answer 5

A research method in which information is sought from participants who are asked a series of questions that have been spelled out, at least to some degree, before the research is conducted

Question 6

Laboratory experiment

Answer 6

Research that occurs in a laboratory, giving the researcher great control over both the selection of the participants to be studied and the conditions to which they are exposed

Question 7

Mass culture

Answer 7

Cultural elements that are administered by large organizations, lack spontaneity, and are phony

Question 8

Natural experiment

Answer 8

An experiment that occurs when researchers take advantage of a naturally occurring event to study its effect on one or more dependent variables

Question 9

Netnography

Answer 9

An ethnographic method in which the internet becoems the research site and what transpires there is the sociologist’s research interest

Question 10

Pangender

Answer 10

Gender identity encompassing all genders

Question 11

Postmodern observation

Answer 11

A set of ideas oriented in opposition to modern theory by, for example, rejecting or deconstructing the gran narratives of modern social theory

Question 12

Proletariat

Answer 12

Workers as a group, or those in the capitalist system who own little or nothing except for their capacity for work, which they must sell to the capitalists in order to survive

Question 13

Qualitative research

Answer 13

Research methods employed in natural settings that produce in-depth, descriptive information about the social world

Question 14

Quantitative research

Answer 14

Research methods that involve the analysis of numerical data usually derived from survey and experiments

Question 15

Queergender

Answer 15

Term used to connote a third gender