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How and why is gender important in research? What are some of the problems in research that involve gender? How about race and ethnicity? How should a researcher take account of race and ethnicity when planning research?

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Zimbardo's Stanford County Prison experiment found that

A) all post-secondary students have the innate ability to be cruel.
B) prison violence is rooted in the social character of jails themselves.
C) no reform is needed in our society's prisons.
D) harm to subjects is not possible in an experiment.

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In a questionnaire, the question, "Please state your opinions about the likelihood of another major terrorist attack at home." is an example of which of the following?

Why is it necessary for researchers to understand a good deal about the way of life of the people they are studying? What problems could arise if, say, a researcher started research on the Amish, Aboriginal peoples, or some distinctive other category of people and had no understanding of their way of life?

Critical sociology can best be described as a(n) ________ approach.

If you were trying to measure the "social class" of various people, you would have to keep in mind that

Qualitative research has special appeal to investigators who favour which theoretical approach?

Which German word meaning "understanding" was used by Max Weber in describing his approach to sociological research?

Interpretive sociology considers subjective feelings to be a source of bias.

How does critical sociology differ from scientific sociology? What are the differences in terms of the basic image of society as well as the goals of research?

Sociologists always achieve complete personal objectivity in their work

Thinking about measuring a variable, how is reliability different from validity? Which concept implies the other?

The analysis of Karl Marx represents the critical approach in sociology.

Which of the following statements is NOT part of the definition of a cause-and-effect relationship?

Correlation is causation.

"A statement of a possible relationship between two or more variables" is the definition of which concept?

Zimbardo's Stanford County Prison research lasted for a little over 6 months.

Sniderman, in his attempt to answer questions about anti-Semitism in Canada, used which of the following research methods?

Discuss the idea that science is one form of truth.

According to Dorothy Smith, women's lives are significantly affected by capitalism or patriarchy.