Research in the Social Sciences

Question 1

What is Validity?

Answer 1

being valid or accurate

Question 2

What is the Difference Between Primary Sources and Secondary Sources?

Answer 2

a primary source is getting the information first hand like interviews and things like that and a secondary source is to presenting someone else’s analysis second hand like taking the information off the internet

Question 3

Research Essay vs. Research Report

Answer 3

a research essay resents and supports an argument or thesis based on research and a research report is the report of an original investigation, technical, includes descriptions of methods and results

Question 4

What is a Description Question?

Answer 4

what happens

Question 5

What is a Explanation Question?

Answer 5

why and how

Question 6

What is a Hypothesis?

Answer 6

possible answer to research questions, a statement, develop after review of literature to explain what happens and why it happens

Question 7

What are Variables?

Answer 7

qualities such as gender or birth order or behaviors, marrying or going to university, independent and dependent variables, cause and effect

Question 8

What is Ethical Research?

Answer 8

obtaining consent, unless it is public of anonymous, must inform the subject if it will cause harm or discomfort, not changing or making up evidence, using citations

Question 9

What are Sample Groups?

Answer 9

people who represent the topic, the parameters such as age, gender, ethnic group, religion, socio-economic class, and education

Question 10

What are Quantitative Methods?

Answer 10

gathers information from many people

Question 11

What are Qualitative Methods?

Answer 11

gathers information from individuals to help researcher understand behaviour