SOC 282 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Ordinal Data

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The research process: theory asking the research question (examine a social relationship, study the relevant literature) formulating the hypotheses (develop a research design) collecting data analyzing data evaluating the hypotheses. Asking the research question (examine a social relationship, study the relevant literature) (contribute new evidence in literature and begin again) Asking a research question: what is empirical research, research based on information that can be verified by using our direct experience, to answer research questions we cannot rely on reasoning, speculation, moral judgment, or subjective preference, empirical: Tentative answers to research questions (subject to empirical verification) A statement of a relationship between characteristics that vary (variables: variable: A property of people or objects that takes on two or more values. Must include categories that are both exhaustive and mutually exclusive. The cause has to precede the effect in time. There has to be an empirical relationship between the cause and effect. This relationship cannot be explained by other factors.

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