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Gender blindness is the problem of failing to consider the importance of gender in sociological research.

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To identify cause-and-effect relationships,it is usually necessary to exercise experimental control of variables.

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Interpretive sociology considers subjective feelings to be a source of bias.

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Sociological research can never be harmful to subjects.

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Validity is the quality of measurement gained by actually measuring what you want to measure.

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Sociologists always achieve complete personal objectivity in their work

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Inductive logical thought turns theory into testable hypotheses.

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Zimbardo's Stanford County Prison research lasted for a little over 6 months.

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Participant observation is a research method in which researchers stand back,watch,and carefully record the behavior of others.

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Natural scientists often have an easier time than social scientists in identifying cause-and-effect relationships.

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Scientific sociologists make use of what Max Weber called "verstehen" to make sense of their surroundings.

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Correlation is causation.

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A false correlation between two variables,caused by some third variable,is described as a "spurious" correlation.

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Conducting interviews takes no more time than completing questionnaires and gives just as good results.

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A random sample is likely to represent the population from which it is drawn.

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Max Weber urged sociologists to strive toward the goal of being value-free.

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The sociologist recognizes that there are various kinds of "truth."

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Causality is always determined mathematically.

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A variable that is changed by another variable is called the "independent variable."

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Participant observation research is usually explanatory,identifying cause and effect relationships.

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