4 types of truth in science
Belief or faith, truth from recognized experts, agreement among people, science
Scientific sociology
The study of society based on systematic observation of social behavior
Concept
A mental construct that represents some part of the world in a simplified form- society, family, economy
Measurements
A procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific case
Variable
A factor that can change in an experiment- price, social class
Operationalized variables
Specifying exactly what is to be measured before assigning a value to a variable
Reliability
Consistency in measurement
Validity
Measuring exactly what you intend to measure
Androcentricity
Refers to approaching an issue from a male perspective
overgeneralizing
Researchers use data drawn from people of only one sex to support conclusions about humanity or society
Gender Blindness
Falling to consider the variable of gender at all
Double standards
Not to distort what they study by judging men and women differently
Interference
A subject reacts to the sex of the researcher, interfering with the research
Research method
A systematic plan for doing research
The Hawthorne Effect
Change in a subjects behavior caused by the awareness being studied
Asking questions: survey research
Population, sample, questionnaire, interview
Inductive logical thought
Reasoning that transforms specific observations into general theory
deductive reasoning
reasoning from the general to the specific