Match the items. a. Ethnography
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Means field research or studying society through detailed observations; a qualitative method of
sociological research
b. quantitative research
2
Can be measured with numbers and is less time consuming than interviews and field research
c. independent variable
3
Measure of whether or not a study measured what it was intended to measure
d. dependent variable
e. Validity
4
Something that may change as a result of altering another variable
f. "The Literature"
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Plan or method of gathering data
9. hypothesis
6.
variation is not dependent on change in another variable; thought to cause change in the other
variable(s)
h. Research Design
empirical question
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Questions about data - did the data measure what was supposed to measured and is the data
consistent?
qualitative research
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An educated guess about the causal relationship between two or more variables
9.
Made up of Interviews and careful observations; Studies subject in great depth but may be very
time consuming
10. Examples include journals, studies, books, and articles