DSC; CH 3 Reaserching Deviance Flashcards
What is Content Analysis?
Content analysis:
involves reviewing records of communication and systematically searching, recording, and analyzing themes and trends in those records.
What is Covert Observation?
Covert observation:
refers to public observation where the researcher does not let the human subjects under study know that he or she is a researcher and that they are being studied.
What are ethics in research?
Ethics in research:
much effort has gone into the ethical implications of researching human subjects, which can be quite complex when studying deviant behavior. Generally, the subject should be asked if he or she consents to participate and his or her confidentiality should be protected.
What is Ethnography?
Ethnography:
the study and recording of human society and subcultures
What are experiments?
Experiments:
often considered the “gold standard” in research, experimental designs generally require subjects to be randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition
What is a field of research?
Field research:
generally involves getting out into the environment and studying human behavior as it exists in the “real world.”
What are human subjects?
Human subjects:
living persons being observed for research purposes
What is a Institutional Review Board? LAW CONSENT!
Institutional review board:
an independent group that reviews research to protect human subjects from potential harms of the research
What is Operationalization?
Operationalization:
refers to the process that a researcher uses to define how a concept is measured, observed, or manipulated in a study.
What is an Overt Observation?
Overt observation:
refers to studies in which the researcher makes human subjects ARE AWARE that they are being observed
What is a Participation Observation?
Participant observation:
research activity where the researcher is actively involved in the behaviors being studied. For example, a recovering alcoholic researcher might study the behaviors of others in AA meetings
What is a Pure Observation?
Pure observation: PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE
form of study in which participants do not see the researcher or even know they are being observed
What is a Quasi-experimental designs?
Quasi-experimental designs:
whereas experimental designs generally require random assignment to a treatment or control condition, quasi-experiments usually relax this requirement
What is a Response Rate?
Response rate:
the number of people in a survey divided by the number of people in the defined sample
What is a Sample?
Sample:
a group of people taken from a larger population and studied or surveyed
