Assignment: Importance of Sociological Research Process Questions

Directions:

• Answer each question below based on your understanding of the assigned reading.
• Length and point guidelines for each question are below.
• Please NUMBER each response.

Readings: Khan textbook, Chapter 2

Questions:

1) What is informed consent and why is it necessary to the sociological research process? （Should be around 125 words long (full paragraph)).

2) How do sociologists select the appropriate research method to answer their research question? (Should be around 125 words long (full paragraph)).

3) Carry out each of the 3 following steps. (a) Ask a sociological research question followed by a hypothesis. Be sure to ask a sociological question about social variables (think race, class, gender, age, etc) and ask how they relate to each other. It cannot be a yes/no question – you may want to review the lecture on methods and questions before completing this question. (b) Identify the independent and dependent variables in your question. (c) Explain which research method you think would be best to test your hypothesis, and why it would actually be able to answer your question. (Should be roughly 150 words long (long paragraph)).

4) Explain the relationship between sampling methodology and the scientific principle of generalizability. (Should be about 125 words long (a full paragraph)).

5) In the example discussed on page 22, is the relationship between higher education and higher earnings a causal one, a correlation, or a spurious relationship? How could this be determined? (Should be about 125 words long (a full paragraph)).

Source of Knowledge. Social research is an important source of knowledge. It opens new ways of knowledge and wisdom. When something unknown brings to a researcher, there is a sort of inner pleasure and happiness. It gives knowledge to the researcher about the unknown facts. It paves out the way of ignorance and gives new direction in a social life.

Research in Informative. It provides updated, proved, authentic and very useful information to the end users. Researchers and common people can take advantages from research. It is not only informative. Its findings are scientific based therefore the results and information are reliable.

Social Cohesion and Unity. Social unity in a problematic area b/w two groups or castes is only possible due to social research. Social research manifests the causes of these events and gives a remedial solution to it. So, social researcher is the main factor for bringing social coherence and unity in society.

Social Planning. If someone wants to develop and bring social growth and development in a society, social planning will be developed which is the outcome of social research. In this situation achieve the growth of society on right line is highly necessary. Social growth can possible only when problems are solved.

Solution of Social Problems. Social research also helps in the solution of social problems it is the research through which we can find the causative factors of an existing social problem and guide us about his solution.

Structural Changes. Social research is responsible for bringing structural changes in a social life. We bring social and cultural change in a social situation which is the outcome of social research.

Social Welfare. Social evils can be removed from society due to research. The process of social welfare is possible due to the procedure of social research through which social evils can be removed.

Social Prediction. Social research helps in making laws and the relation between social laws and their factors. It helps to know the existence of causative factors and their magnitude and this facilitates prediction of results.

Social Control. For smooth running of society social control is necessary. For this purpose we apply social research to a society for bringing social order and control.

Social Growth. The growth and development in a society is possible for the improvement of living standard and it is the main function of social research.

New Techniques. Social Research introduces new techniques and improves the old ones. It also modifies the existing tools of research. It gives us the methods of knowing new ways for using our research procedure.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

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Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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