Researching in Social Science

This document promotes the ethical principles of beneficence, justice, and informed consent.

• The Belmont Report

• The Colbert Report

• Ethics in Today's World

• The Dilemma of the Majority

A type of analysis that deals with numbers, or the number of times that people do something.

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Representative

• Quotient

A type of analysis that looks deeper at the specific content of what people think or feel.

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Representative

• Quotient

If you send out a digital questionnaire to gather information on a targeted population, which data collection method are you using?

• Experiment

• Survey

• Participant Observation

• Existing Resources

If you conduct observations of different groups, with one group being altered and a control group not being altered, which data collection method are you using?

• Experiment

• Survey

• Participant Observation

• Existing Resources

If you wanted to know about what life is like on the West Coast and you moved in with a family there for a year, which data collection method are you using?

• Experiment

• Survey

• Participant Observation

• Existing Resources

If you want to conduct an experiment, a survey, or do participant observations you need to make sure your participants are willing and know the consequences. What is this called?

• Willing Participant

• Informed Consent

• Ethical Bias

• Agreeable Patient

When you design your experiment and analyze the data you gather, you need to remain as ________ as possible.

• Objective

• Subjective

A hypothesis often uses the template of a ________ statement.

• If/Then

• Who/Where

• How/Why

• Then/How

at the conclusion of the scientific method is the establishment of a _____.

• question
• hypothesis
• experiment
• theory