Sociology Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

a written set of questions to be answered by a research participant

• questionnaire

• interviews

• observation

• qualitative research

person-to-person conversations for the purpose of gathering information by means of questions posed to respondents

• questionnaire

• reliability

• validity

• interviews

Information obtained through the senses.

• quantitative research

• interviews

• observation

• qualitative research

research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form

• sampling

• quantitative research

• qualitative research

• validity

research that relies on what is seen in field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data

• qualitative research

• quantitative research

• posivist sociology

• interpretive sociology

Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings

• reliability

• sampling

• validity

• interpretive sociology

The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure

• reliability

• research methods

• validity

• sampling

the study of society based on systematic observation of social behavior

• posivist sociology

• interpretive sociology

• research methods

• interviews

the study of society that focuses on the meanings people attach to their social world

• questionnaire

• research methods

• interpretive sociology

• posivist sociology

approaches that social scientists use for investigating the answers to questions

• interviews

• research methods

• representativeness

• quantitative research