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Doing Sociology : Research Methods
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
(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.
Some More Questions From Doing Sociology : Research Methods Chapter
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
What should be done to know the nature of society ? Why is it difficult to know it ?
Distinguish between a response and a datum.
The observation is possible in the following four ways :
(i) Participant Observation
(ii) Participant as Observer
(iii) Observer as participant, and
(iv) Observer as Observer
Why is the questions of a scientific method particularly important in sociology ?
How do sociologists try to deal with these difficulties and strive for objectivity ?
What is meant by ‘reflexivity’ and why is it important in sociology ?
What are the borsie elements of the survey method ? What is chief advantage of this method ?
What are some of the criteria involved in selecting a representative sample ?
What are some of the weaknesses of the survey method ?
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