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Western Governor's University, General Education Social Science, chapter 1

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A method of research consisting of a detailed, long-term investigation.   case study  
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A generalized idea about people, objects, or processes that are related to one another; an abstract way of classifying things that are similar.   concept  
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A survey of a broad spectrum of population at a specific point in time.   cross-section  
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An attitude of the scientific method in the social sciences, requiring that scientists not pass moral judgment on their feelings.   ethical neutrality  
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A method of research in which the researcher controls and manipulates variables in one group to test the effects of an independent variable on a dependent variable.   experiemnt  
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A tentative statement, in clearly defined terms, predicting a relationship between variables.   hypothesis  
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A survey that continues over a long period, engaging in contrasts and comparisons.   longitudinal  
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A principle of the scientific method, especially in the social sciences, requiring researchers to divest themseleves of personal attitudes, desires, beliefs, values, and tendencies, when confronting their data.   objectivity  
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A method of research in which researchers try to take part in the lives of the members of the group under analysis, sometimes with out revealing their purposes.   participant observation  
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In the social sciences, a statistical concept referring to the totality of phenomena under investigation(e.g., all college students enrolled in four-year private universities).   population  
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An aspect of scientific methodology that bolsters and complements theories, in the social sciences, four fundamental formats are used: the sample survey, the case study, the experiment, and the paricipant observation.   research  
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A method of research consisting of an attempt to determine the occurrence of a particular act or opinion in a particular act or opinion in a particular sample of people.   sample survey  
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A set of concepts arranged so as to explain and/or predict possible and probable relationships.   theory  
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Factors whose relationships researchers try to uncover; characteristics that differ (vary) in each individual case.   variables  
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