Doing Sociology : Research Methods

Question

Write in brief the meaning of the followings :

(i) Participant Observation

(ii) Open-ended Questions

(iii) Corporative Analysis

(iv) Dependent Variable

(v) Observation

(vi) Documents

(vii) Experimental Group

Answer

(i) Participant Observation : It is a

method of observation in which an investigation participates as a member of the group he is studying.

(ii) Open-ended Questions : Questions that a respondent is able to answer in his or her own words.

(iii) Corporative Analysis : Research involving observation in more than one social system, or in the same social system at more than one point in time.

(iv) Dependent Variable : A variable whose occurrence or change is believed to be affected by one or more independent variables.

(v) Observation : It is the examination of behavior directly by an investigator or by persons who serve as observes.

(vi) Documents : Written sources such as official and other useful records.

(vii) Experimental Group : In an experiment, the group into which the independent variable is introduced.

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Explain the meaning of the following terms/words :

(i) Antithesis (ii) Thesis

(iii) Synthesis (iv) Variable

(v) Bureaucracy (vi) Organic Analogy

(vii) Capitalism

What is meant of the following terms/words :

(i) Concomitant Variation

(ii) Nomothetic

(iii) Conjectural

(iv) Cross-Cultural Method

(v) Dialectical

(vi) Materialism

(vii) Equilibrium

(viii) Manifest Functions

(ix) Ethnographic

Write in short the meaning of the following terms/words :

(i) Ideal Type

(ii) Latent Functions

(iii) Integration

(iv) Ideographic

(v) Functionalism

State the limitations of historical method.

Discuss how the historical method can be explained through Karl Marx’s description of class conflict.

Write the short the meaning of the following terms/words :

(a) Validity

(b) Structured Interview

(c) Respondents

(d) Subjectivity

(e) Schedule

(f) Secondary Data

(g) Structural Interview

What is meant of the following terms/words :

(a) Case Study

(b) Close - Ended Questions

(c) Coding

(d) Rapport

(e) Reliability

(f) Community Study

(g) Concept

(h) Control Group

(i) Questionnaire

Write the short the meaning of the following terms/words :

(a) Non-Participant Observation

(b) Methodology

(c) Field Study

(d) Interview Bias

(e) Generalization

(f) Interview

(g) Independent Variable

(h) Selection

Write in brief the meaning of the followings :

(i) Participant Observation

(ii) Open-ended Questions

(iii) Corporative Analysis

(iv) Dependent Variable

(v) Observation

(vi) Documents

(vii) Experimental Group

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