SOCIOLOGY 1301 EVALUATION EXAMS 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Theory - ✔✔a proposed explanation about social interactions or society
✔✔Verestehen - ✔✔a german word that means to understan in a deep way
✔✔case study - ✔✔in-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual
✔✔code of ethics - ✔✔a set of guidelines that the American Sociological Association
has established to foster ethical research and professionally responsible scholarship in
sociology
✔✔content analysis - ✔✔applying a systematic approach to record and value
information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand
✔✔Correlation - ✔✔when a change in one variable coincides with a change in another
variable, but does not necessarily indicate causation
✔✔dependent variables - ✔✔a variable changed by other variables
✔✔empirical evidence - ✔✔evidence that comes from direct experience, scientifically
gathered data, or experimentation
✔✔Etnography - ✔✔observing a complete social setting and all its entails
✔✔experiment - ✔✔the testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions
✔✔field research - ✔✔gathering data from a natural environment without doing a lab
experiment or a survey
✔✔hawthrone effect - ✔✔when study subjects behave in a certain manner due to their
awareness of being observed by a researcher
✔✔Htpothesis - ✔✔a testable educated guess about to predicted outcomes between
two or more variables
✔✔independent variable - ✔✔variables that cause changes in dependent variables
✔✔interpretive framework - ✔✔a sociological research approach that seeks in-depth
understanding of a topic or subject through observation or interaction; this approach is
not based on hypothesis testing
✔✔interview - ✔✔a one-on-one conversation between the researcher and the subject
, ✔✔literature review - ✔✔a scholarly research step that entails identifying and studying
all existing studies on a topic to create a basis for new research
✔✔meta-analysis - ✔✔a technique in which the results of virtually all previous studies
on a specific subject are evaluated together
✔✔nonreactive research - ✔✔using secondary data, does not include direct contact
with subjects and will not alter or influence people's behaviors
✔✔operational definition - ✔✔specific explanations of abstract concept that a
researcher plans to study.
✔✔participant observation - ✔✔when a researcher immerses herself in a group or
social setting in order to make observations from an "insider" perspective
✔✔Population - ✔✔a defined group serving as the subject of a study
✔✔primary data - ✔✔data that are collected directly from firsthand experience
✔✔qualitative data - ✔✔comprise information that is subjective and often based on
what is seen in a natural setting
✔✔quantitative data - ✔✔represents research collected in numerical form that can be
counted
✔✔random sample - ✔✔a study's participants being randomly selected to serve as a
representation of a larger population
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔a measure of a study's consistency that considers how likely results
are to be replicated if a study is reproduced
✔✔Samples - ✔✔small, manageable number of subjects that represent the population
✔✔Scientific Method - ✔✔an established scholarly research method that involves
asking a question, researching existing sources, forming a hypothesis, designing and
conducting a study, and drawing conclusions
✔✔secondary data analysis - ✔✔using data collected by other but applying new
interpretations
✔✔Surveys - ✔✔collect data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about
behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Theory - ✔✔a proposed explanation about social interactions or society
✔✔Verestehen - ✔✔a german word that means to understan in a deep way
✔✔case study - ✔✔in-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual
✔✔code of ethics - ✔✔a set of guidelines that the American Sociological Association
has established to foster ethical research and professionally responsible scholarship in
sociology
✔✔content analysis - ✔✔applying a systematic approach to record and value
information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand
✔✔Correlation - ✔✔when a change in one variable coincides with a change in another
variable, but does not necessarily indicate causation
✔✔dependent variables - ✔✔a variable changed by other variables
✔✔empirical evidence - ✔✔evidence that comes from direct experience, scientifically
gathered data, or experimentation
✔✔Etnography - ✔✔observing a complete social setting and all its entails
✔✔experiment - ✔✔the testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions
✔✔field research - ✔✔gathering data from a natural environment without doing a lab
experiment or a survey
✔✔hawthrone effect - ✔✔when study subjects behave in a certain manner due to their
awareness of being observed by a researcher
✔✔Htpothesis - ✔✔a testable educated guess about to predicted outcomes between
two or more variables
✔✔independent variable - ✔✔variables that cause changes in dependent variables
✔✔interpretive framework - ✔✔a sociological research approach that seeks in-depth
understanding of a topic or subject through observation or interaction; this approach is
not based on hypothesis testing
✔✔interview - ✔✔a one-on-one conversation between the researcher and the subject
, ✔✔literature review - ✔✔a scholarly research step that entails identifying and studying
all existing studies on a topic to create a basis for new research
✔✔meta-analysis - ✔✔a technique in which the results of virtually all previous studies
on a specific subject are evaluated together
✔✔nonreactive research - ✔✔using secondary data, does not include direct contact
with subjects and will not alter or influence people's behaviors
✔✔operational definition - ✔✔specific explanations of abstract concept that a
researcher plans to study.
✔✔participant observation - ✔✔when a researcher immerses herself in a group or
social setting in order to make observations from an "insider" perspective
✔✔Population - ✔✔a defined group serving as the subject of a study
✔✔primary data - ✔✔data that are collected directly from firsthand experience
✔✔qualitative data - ✔✔comprise information that is subjective and often based on
what is seen in a natural setting
✔✔quantitative data - ✔✔represents research collected in numerical form that can be
counted
✔✔random sample - ✔✔a study's participants being randomly selected to serve as a
representation of a larger population
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔a measure of a study's consistency that considers how likely results
are to be replicated if a study is reproduced
✔✔Samples - ✔✔small, manageable number of subjects that represent the population
✔✔Scientific Method - ✔✔an established scholarly research method that involves
asking a question, researching existing sources, forming a hypothesis, designing and
conducting a study, and drawing conclusions
✔✔secondary data analysis - ✔✔using data collected by other but applying new
interpretations
✔✔Surveys - ✔✔collect data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about
behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire
