SOCY 1000 MCCONNELL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Came around at the end of a world war
Represented equality and freedom (cultural obj)
Hippies thought it represented corporations, revolted against it (cultural obj)
Found out it was vegan so the hippies changed their mind - ✔✔How can Wonder Bread
be analyzed as a cultural object?
✔✔Arnold: only positive, doesn't address negative aspects of culture
Tyler: everything is culture, limitations are that it is overgeneralized
Geertz: in order for something to be culture, it has to be historically passed down,
doesn't address that new things that are introduced can be culture - ✔✔What are the
insights and limitations of Arnold's, Tyler's and Geertz's culture definitions?
✔✔Independent Variable - ✔✔The variable which brings about a change in another
variable is the what?
✔✔Causal Mechanism - ✔✔When a researcher claims that males commit more violent
crime than females because males have more testosterone, she is identifying a what?
✔✔Hypothesis - ✔✔When a researcher makes a prediction that one variable will affect
another variable, he or she may state this as a what?
✔✔Causal Mechanism - ✔✔The factor or process which explains why an independent
variable has an effect on a dependent variable is what?
✔✔Quantitative Methods - ✔✔Conclusions are reached with statistics in what research
methods?
✔✔Qualitative Methods - ✔✔Detailed descriptions of the culture of a street gang would
be made in what research methods?
, ✔✔Qualitative Methods - ✔✔Participant observation is an example of what research
methods?
✔✔Validity - ✔✔When a researcher claims that his survey measures the social
characteristics it is intended to measure, he is confident that his data have what?
✔✔White Coat Effect - ✔✔What is it when people behave differently because a
researcher is watching them?
✔✔Generalizability - ✔✔What will research findings have when we are sure that most
people in the greater society will be doing the same things we saw those in our sample
doing?
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F
The dependent variable comes after an independent variable.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔T/F
The IRB is a bureau of the federal government.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Surveys collect quantitative data.
✔✔FALSE,
Social desirability responses DECREASE the validity of data - ✔✔T/F
Social desirability responses increase the validity of data.
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F
IRB approval is required for all research involving human subjects.
✔✔1. Go to IRB for approval
2. Explain what type of methods (qualitative or quantitative)
3. Have hypothesis
4. Have population
5. Pull a sample
6.Pick IV and DV
7. Be aware of issues with validity (White Coat Effect, Social Desirability Response) -
✔✔What are all the things you must consider, state, and do in designing a sociological
study?
✔✔1. White Coat Effect: people act differently when they are being observed
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Came around at the end of a world war
Represented equality and freedom (cultural obj)
Hippies thought it represented corporations, revolted against it (cultural obj)
Found out it was vegan so the hippies changed their mind - ✔✔How can Wonder Bread
be analyzed as a cultural object?
✔✔Arnold: only positive, doesn't address negative aspects of culture
Tyler: everything is culture, limitations are that it is overgeneralized
Geertz: in order for something to be culture, it has to be historically passed down,
doesn't address that new things that are introduced can be culture - ✔✔What are the
insights and limitations of Arnold's, Tyler's and Geertz's culture definitions?
✔✔Independent Variable - ✔✔The variable which brings about a change in another
variable is the what?
✔✔Causal Mechanism - ✔✔When a researcher claims that males commit more violent
crime than females because males have more testosterone, she is identifying a what?
✔✔Hypothesis - ✔✔When a researcher makes a prediction that one variable will affect
another variable, he or she may state this as a what?
✔✔Causal Mechanism - ✔✔The factor or process which explains why an independent
variable has an effect on a dependent variable is what?
✔✔Quantitative Methods - ✔✔Conclusions are reached with statistics in what research
methods?
✔✔Qualitative Methods - ✔✔Detailed descriptions of the culture of a street gang would
be made in what research methods?
, ✔✔Qualitative Methods - ✔✔Participant observation is an example of what research
methods?
✔✔Validity - ✔✔When a researcher claims that his survey measures the social
characteristics it is intended to measure, he is confident that his data have what?
✔✔White Coat Effect - ✔✔What is it when people behave differently because a
researcher is watching them?
✔✔Generalizability - ✔✔What will research findings have when we are sure that most
people in the greater society will be doing the same things we saw those in our sample
doing?
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F
The dependent variable comes after an independent variable.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔T/F
The IRB is a bureau of the federal government.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Surveys collect quantitative data.
✔✔FALSE,
Social desirability responses DECREASE the validity of data - ✔✔T/F
Social desirability responses increase the validity of data.
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F
IRB approval is required for all research involving human subjects.
✔✔1. Go to IRB for approval
2. Explain what type of methods (qualitative or quantitative)
3. Have hypothesis
4. Have population
5. Pull a sample
6.Pick IV and DV
7. Be aware of issues with validity (White Coat Effect, Social Desirability Response) -
✔✔What are all the things you must consider, state, and do in designing a sociological
study?
✔✔1. White Coat Effect: people act differently when they are being observed
