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Case Study

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In-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual.

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Code of Ethics

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A set of guidelines that the American Sociological Association has established to foster ethical research and professionally responsible scholarship in Sociology.

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Content Analysis

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Applying a systematic approach to record and value information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand.

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Correlation

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When a change in one variable coincides with a change in another variable but does not necessarily indicate causation.

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Dependent Variables

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A variable changed by other variables.

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Empirical evidence

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Evidence that comes from the direct experience, scientifically gathered data, or experimentation.

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Ethnography

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Observing a complete social setting and all it entails

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Experiment

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The testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions

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Feild research

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Gathering data from a natural environment without doing a lab experiment or a survey

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Hawthrone Effect

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When a study subjects behave in a certain manner due to their awareness of being observed by a researcher.

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Hypothesis

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A testable educated guess about predicted outcomes between two or more outcomes

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Independent Variables

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Variables that cause changes in dependent variables

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Interpretive Framework

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A sociological research approach that seeks an in-depth understanding of a topic or subject through observation or interaction; this approach is not based on hypthesis testing

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Interview

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A one-on-one conversation between the researcher and the subject

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Literature review

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A scholarly research step that entails identifying and studying all existing studies on a topic to create a basis for new research

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Meta-analysis

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A technique in which the results of virtually all previous studies on a specific subject are evaluated together.

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Nonreactive research

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Using secondary data does not include direct contact with subjects and will not alter or influence peoples behaviors

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Operational definitions

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Specific explanations of abstract concepts that a researcher plans to study

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Participant observations

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When a researcher immerses herself in a group or social setting in order to make observations from an insider perspective

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Population

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A defined group serving as the subject of a study

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Primary data

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Data that is collected directly from firsthand experience

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Qualitative data

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Comprised of data information that is subjective and often based on what is seen in a natural setting

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Quantitative data

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Research collected in numerical form that can be counted

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Random sample

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A study’s participants being randomly selected to serve as a representation of a larger population

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Reliability

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A measure of a study’s consistency that considers how likely results are to be replicated if a study is reproduced

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Samples

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A small, manageable number of subjects that represents the population

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Scientific method

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An established scholarly research method that involves asking a question, researching existing sources, forming a hypothesis, designing and conducting a study, and drawing conclusions.

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Secondary data analysis

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Using data collected by others but applying new interpretations

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Surveys

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Using data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire

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Validity

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The degree to which a sociological measure accurately reflects the topic of study

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Value neutrality

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A practice of remaining impartial without bias or judgment during the course of a study and in publishing results.

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Global inequality

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Concentrated resources in certain nations and is significantly affecting the opportunities of individuals in poorer and less powerful countries.

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Functionalist perspective (macro)

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They focus on the way that all aspects of society are integral to the whole

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Conflict theory (macro)

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The creating and reproduction of inequality, systematic inequality created by core nations who exploit resources of peripheral nations

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Symbolic interaction (Micro)

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Day-today impact of global inequality, the meannings that individauls attach to global inequality

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Global stratification

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The unequal distribution among nations… gaps b/w nations and gaps within nations

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Global classifications

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Cold war classifications: (outdated)
First world
Second world
Third world

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Immanuel Wallenstein: World Systems

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Core nations, peripheral nations, semi-periphrial nations

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Core nations

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Dominant capitalist countries that are highly industrialized and urbanized.

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Peripheral nations

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Very little industrialization often have out-dated technology of core nations

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semi-peripheral nations

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In-between nations, not powerful enough to dictate policy but have factories and the means of production and a middle class

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High-income nations

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Gross national income at least $12,746 per capita

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Gross national income (GNI)

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The income of the nation found by dividing the total GNI by the total population

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Capital flight

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The movement of capital from one nation to another

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Deindustrialization

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Occurs as a consequence of capital flight, global countries move their industry to places they can get more production with lower cost

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Slavery

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Goes hand-in-hand w/global inequality and is any situation in which people are sold, treated as property. or forced to work for little or no pay.

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Chattel slavery

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when one person owns another person as property

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Debt bondage

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Bonded labor, the poor pledging themselves as slaves for basic necessities

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Low-income nations

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GNI less than $1,045

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Lower-middle income

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GNI $1,045-$4,125

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Upper-middle

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GNI $4,125-$12,745

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Multinational

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A large corporation wich both produced and sells goods or services to various countries

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Gross domestic product (DPD)

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Measures a country’s output

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