SOWK 435 Midterm 2024 Questions

adherence to authority - Unquestioning acceptance of statements by authority figures such as parents, teachers, and professionals community based participatory research - a partnership approach to research that equitably involves, community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process and in which all partners contribute expertise and share decision making and ownership. Constructivism - A perspective that emphasizes how different stakeholders in social settings construct their beliefs. Critical Theory - a contemporary form of conflict theory that criticizes many different systems and ideologies of domination and oppression descriptive research - research conducted to clarify the characteristics of certain phenomena to solve a particular problem evaluation research - research assessing the effect of policies and programs explanatory research - seeks to identify causes and effects of social phenomena and to predict how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to variation in some other phenomenon Exploratory Research - Research conducted to gather more information about a problem or to make a tentative hypothesis more specific Feminist research - research growing out of feminist theory, which seeks radical reform of traditional research methods illogical reasoning - when we prematurely jump to conclusions or argue on the basis of invalid assumptions Inaccurate Observation - An observation based on faulty perceptions of empirical reality Interpretivism - as opposed to the dominant positivist perspective on consumer behavior, instead stresses the importance of symbolic, subjective experience and the idea that meaning is in the mind of the person rather than existing "out there" in the objective world Intersubjective agreement - when members of a research community independently arrive at similar conclusions about a given social phenomenon