SOC 030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Central Tendency, Behaviorism, Thomas Theorem

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 030
• Professor: christopher

Document Summary

Twenty statements test - a method designed to measure people"s self attitudes or self conceptions. This test simply requires you to write 20 answers, as quickly as you can, to the question who am i . The answer offer insight into the social roles and identities that constitute yourself, the feelings and attitudes you to act toward yourself, and the ideas you have about who you really are. Theory - set of inter-related propositions to explain a phenomenon. Induction - refers to theory building: specific / empirical (measurable) Deduction - refers to theory testing; general /abstract specific / empirical (measurable) general. Oper ation alizat ion - a precis e definit ion for a varia ble. Hypo thesi s - testa ble propositions involving two or more variables. Positive relationships / negative relationships - positive and negative independent variables affect the dependent variable.