Key Terms Flashcards

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Secondary Data

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  • data collected by someone who is someone other than the user
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Hawthorne effect

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  • change their behaviour because they know they are being watched
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‘Going Native’

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  • researcher becomes so embedded in the group they study that they lose objectivity and effectively become a member
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Getting in, staying in, getting out

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  • stages of observations- joining the group, maintaining your cover and leaving the group safely
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Rapport

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  • mutual relationship built upon comfort, trust and safety
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Verstehen

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  • gaining empathetic understanding
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Social desirability

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  • changing your responses when taking a part in an interview due to the social style of the interviewer
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Interviewer Bias

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  • ways the interviewer conducts interviews to change your response and answers
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Status inequality

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  • interviewee changing their answers to match status of interviewer
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Experimental group

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  • group who will be subjects in the experiments
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Control group

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  • group who is compared to the experimental group
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IV

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  • thing you change to measure the effect
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DV

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  • thing you measure in relation to what you’re testing
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Ecological Validity

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  • where findings are true to a natural environment. Behaviour takes place in its normal place
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Sampling frame

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  • list of people from which a sample is taken
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Sampling method

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  • method by which you will select your participants
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Sample

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  • actual group of participants that you will use in your research
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Validity

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  • how true and accurate what is being is
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Reliability

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  • can something be repeated or replicated by another researcher and provide similar results
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Representation

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  • represent a typical cross-section of society
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Objectivity

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  • fact based research
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Subjectivity

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  • opinion based
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Primary data

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  • collected first hand by sociologists
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Quantitative data

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  • information in a numerical form
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Qualitative data

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  • information in a written form goes more in depth
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Positivists

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  • prefer quantitative data and see sociology as a science
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Interpretivists

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  • prefer qualitative data, seek to understand social actors’ meanings and don’t believe sociology is a science
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Open questions

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  • require detailed response, more than a simple yes/non
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Standardised

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  • high level of structure, interviewer asks same questions to all interviewees
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Interview schedule

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  • set of prepared questions designed to be asked exactly as worded