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The process of an individual taking a systematic conceptual definition and creating a measurement tool to represent this conceptual definition is

Michelle Stump is an honor student and wants to investigate how “love” was portrayed in 1970s disco music. Ms. Stump analyzed the lyrics of all disco music in the Billboard Top 100 from January 1976-December 1981. What kind of research is Ms. Stump conducting?

In a qualitative study, most of one’s measurement decisions happen:

Prestige and honor within the scientific community depend largely on

Learning how to conduct social research will help students________:

What historical event stimulated interest in comparative research?

In our society, the “voice” or perspective of people in power is given more legitimacy than people without power. Howard Becker suggests that one responsibility of sociologists is to legitimize and bring to focus the “voice” or perspective of those without power. This illustrates

Professor Roberts began his study comparing 18th century New York with 18th century York (England) by ignoring all theory, concepts, and assumptions. He wanted a “blank slate” when looking at data and to do research without analytic categories. He committed which problem or fallacy?

A comparative-historical researcher can encounter each of the following ethical issues, EXCEPT which one?

Professor Turkle cross-classifies the degree of conflict in a divorce (bitter, unpleasant, neutral, friendly) by whether the divorce involved the custody of children. He ends up with eight types of divorce and uses them to study divorce. Professor Turkle developed a