SOCL 2211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Quasi, Random Assignment, Internal Validity
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70% lecture on essay, short answer, definitions, matching, list, framework : threats to external and internal validity. Ruling class or urban underclass : gold"s roles in participant observation. Participant: ethics strengths & weaknesses know a few, strengths: List the forms of survey research (4: face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, mail interviews, online interviews. Sponsored stranger role of researcher- one of the persons on the social interaction. Sponsored strangers include experiments, surveys, and participant observation. The sponsored stranger is allowed into the lives of participants because they represent (are sponsored by) some organization: know the for diagrams for the four types of surveys, face-to-face. The respondent: know a couple advantages and disadvantages of the four types of surveys, face-to-face interviews: Advantages: motivate respondents to give more accurate and complete information, offer the opportunity to explain/correct any respondent misunderstandings, allows control over confounding factors, flexibility of administration, provides opportunity to add observational information. Interviewer bias: wording variation (in less structured interviews, telephone interviews:
