Soc2206b final exam prep

Soc2206b – 570 Final Exam Information Exam Time: 3 hours Format : 60 multiple choice questions; choice of five (5) out of ten (10) definitions; and four (4) short answer questions Multiple Choice Questions are worth 1 point each Definitions are worth 2 points each Short Answer Questions are worth 5 points each (Answers should be two paragraphs or more) Study Guide : The exam will cover all lectures, powerpoints, videos and text materials since the midterm. (Neuman Chapters 8-16 – omit Ch. 11) The concepts listed below are likely to be found on the final and the questions below will help you to study for the exam. A. Concepts to study (many of these will be on the exam!): types of survey questions (contingency, structure, matrix etc.) open vs. closed-ended questions threatening and non-threatening questions desirable vs. undesirable behaviours social desirability and prestige bias classical experimental design field experiment pre-test and post-test experimental and control group Solomon four-square design blind and double-blind experiment random assignment external validity matching volunteer characteristics threats to internal validity (i.e. maturation, mortality) selection bias placebo focus group critical discourse analysis content analysis manifest and latent coding critical discourse analysis diffusion of treatment Summative content analysis ideal type equivalence qualitative coding coding (open, axial, and selective) sociogram successive approximation elite studies gatekeeper guilty knowledge Hawthorne effect ethnomethodology ethnography phenomenology normalizing research analytic induction grounded theory groupthink field notes, jotted notes, etc. primary and secondary sources running records, recollections ecological fallacy nomothetic and idiographic orientations erosion and accretion measures attitude of strangeness Galton’s problem