Doing Sociology : Research Methods
(a) Case Study
(b) Close - Ended Questions
(c) Coding
(d) Rapport
(e) Reliability
(f) Community Study
(g) Concept
(h) Control Group
(i) Questionnaire
(a) Case Study : A research approach that involves a detailed and through analysis of a single case or unit is called case study.
(b) Close-Ended Questions : Questions followed by a list of possible answers to be selected by the respondents.
(c) Coding : Categorizing data is called coding.
(d) Rapport : A feeling of trust between researcher and subjects is called rapport.
(e) Reliability : It shows the consistency, objectivity and lack of ambiguity of a statistical test or a set of measurements.
(f) Community Study : Research that focuses on the detailed analysis of a single community an application of the case study approach is called community study.
(g) Concept : A word or set of words that expresses a general idea about the nature of events or thing, or the relations between them; it usually provides a category for classification.
(h) Control Group : In an experiment, the group from which the independent variable in withheld, called control group.
(i) Questionnaire : A printed list of questions to be answered by respondents by himself or herself.
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(i) Participant Observation
(ii) Open-ended Questions
(iii) Corporative Analysis
(iv) Dependent Variable
(v) Observation
(vi) Documents
(vii) Experimental Group
(i) Participant Observation
(ii) Participant as Observer
(iii) Observer as participant, and
(iv) Observer as Observer
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