SOCIOLOGY [1.] I want you to pick a topic, subject, or aspect of the social worl

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SOCIOLOGY

[1.] I want you to pick a topic, subject, or aspect of the social world that you are interested are personally interested in for this assignment. Explain your interest in the topic.

[2.] Next, I want you to pick at least one Independent Variable (IV) and Dependent Variable (DV). Define the terms Independent and Dependent Variable. Why did you pick these variables? Explain your thought process.

[3.] Give me at least one hypothesis based on the variables you picked. How did you derive this hypothesis? If this study were real, you would need literature to back up your hypothetical claim. What kind of information might you seek to help justify your hypothesis?  

[4.] Pick a research methodology that would help you study the aspect of the social world you are planning to investigate. Define that research methodology and describe why you would pick that particular one to focus your study around.

[5.] I want you to pick a second methodology for your study. Define that research methodology and describe how this methodology might change the focus of your study. Did you notice that by changing your methodology, you changed the direction you might have to take to investigate your research question and topic? Speculate on why picking a research methodology is so important in the early stages of a research study?

[6.] How would you collect the data for your study? What group of people would you want to target? What are some possible limitations to collecting the data you need?

[7.] Suppose your hypothesis is initially correct, and you have a correlation between variables (Way to go researcher)! BUT… another sociologist points out that your variables causality is a spurious relationship (See pages 48-49 in text). What is a spurious relationship? Why is that bad? What is reverse causality?

[8.] Why are Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability important for any research study?

[9.] For my research study, I am investigating the impact of unemployment on the U.S. poverty rate. That is, I hypothesized that as unemployment rises the poverty rate for the U.S. will also rise. My study is looking for a positive correlation and increasing causality between the two variables. The results of my study show that for every percentage of increase in unemployment we see a similar increase in the poverty rate. However, another researcher found that as unemployment rises the poverty rate stayed the same. This researcher and I both used the same measure for unemployment but not poverty. Why do we have different results? {Hint: Definition on the bottom of page 50 in the text book).

[10.] Whose research study in the above scenario is correct? Could both be correct? (How is that possible)?

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[8] Why are Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability important for any research study?

Validity

Reliability

Generalizability

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