Quiz 3: Chapters 4&5 Neuman

1. What does the Matrix (spoon is real, there is no spoon issue) have to do with each of the following: ontology, epistemology and social science?


from wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually asimulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Upon learning this, computer programmer "Neo" is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, involving other people who have been freed from the "dream world" and into reality.




2.  Describe the defining aspects of positivist, interpretive and critical approaches to social science.


3.   What are two of the most important reasons to perform a literature review?


4.  What are the most important ethical principles to consider when designing a social scientific research study?


Quiz due on Wednesday @ 6:00 pm.  turn in your quiz here:

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Article sign up, Homework #2

Please chose the three articles that interest you the most.  I will group people by interest as best I can and assign each student to a group.  Your group will work together to read and summarize the research described in your assigned article.  Groups will present, but individuals will write up their own final drafts of the summaries of the articles.  Details of the assignment are posted in the assignment description, which will be linked on this page on Thursday.

1. “Guarded Borders: Interracial Teen Dating and Difficulties with Peers.”
2.  “Too Cool for School? Peer Status and High School Dropout.” 
3. “Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks, and Male Adolescent Violence.”
4.  “When it’s Good to be “Bad”: Violence and Adolescent Peer Acceptance.” 
5.  "Strangers in the Halls: Isolation and Delinquency in School Networks.” 
6.  “Delinquency and the Structure of Adolescent Peer Groups.” 
7.  “Dangerous Liaisons? Dating and Drinking Diffusion in Adolescent Peer Networks.” 

Sign up here:

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Instructions are here-- don't start working on it till class on Thursday:
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Quiz Week 2

Week 2 Covers Chapters 2 and 3.  The following quiz questions are based on ideas from those chapters.

The quiz is open notes and open book.  But you need to do your own work, the quiz is not group assignment.

Cheers- Ted

Chapter 1 offered an initial, but somewhat simplified description of social research.   There are several important ways that social research varies.

• Use: basic vrs applied
• Purpose: explore, describe, explain
• Case structure:   within case studies, across cases
• Time points:  cross sectional, longitudinal (time series, panel, cohort), case study
• Data collection techniques.   

1.  What are the main differences between basic and applied research?

2.  What are the major types of data collection techniques?

3.  Time point of data collection is a dimension on which research studies vary. Briefly describe the three main types of longitudinal research.

4.   Explain what a cohort is and give an example of your own (not from class or the book).

Chapter 3

5. ____________  are statements about the nature of things that are not directly tested by a theory.
A. Concepts
B. Assumptions
C. Ideal types
D. Implications

6.   What is a theoretical explanation?

7.  What is a positive relationship?

8.  From our GapMinder (countries) example in class today, describe the relationship between per-capita gdp and life expectancy

A.  causal, positive, though possibly spurious and explainable by other variables like inequality
B.  causal, negative, though possibly spurious and explainable by other variables like inequality
C.  not causal, structural, nonspurious
D.  longitudinal, causal, negative

9.  Why does Neuman call the relationship between theory and research a dynamic duo?

A.  Theory does not remain fixed over time.
B.  Theory frames how we look and think about topics.
C.  Theory has a place in virtually all research
D.  Researchers can extend, refute or modify theory on the basis of results.
E.  All of the above
F.  A, C and D; but not B
G.  A, B and C; but not D

10.  An ideal type is

A.  The best type available
B.  A general description of a situation
C.  An abstract model of an event, process or idea
D.  A pure cross classifying combination of simple concepts


The end!

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Homework1

Homework #1 is described in a google document, linked here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pW4qcS0pZX17HKy5UP5qTVSfHGs2HnA_KRVvdrFr_Q8/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CKjmyrgN

HW1 will be due by midnight Tuesday of week 3. (as stated in syllabus) [edit- sorry for mistakenly stating Monday]

The turn in for the final version of your HW1 is linked below.  Turn it in by midnight Tuesday the 20th.

Check out this help video for working with excel:

direct link to video:
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Roster info

I like to find out some basic info about everyone in my class.  Please follow this link to let me know some key details.

thanks

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351 Link List

Week 1       Readings    Quiz   Other
Week 2       Ch. 2. 3    Quiz   Homework1
Week 3       Ch 3. 4     Quiz   Other
Week 4      Ch 5. 6     Quiz   Homework2
Week 5       Readings    Quiz   Other
Week 6       Readings    Quiz   Other
Week 7       Readings    Quiz   Homework3
Week 8       Readings    Quiz   Other
Week 9       Readings    Quiz   Homework4
Week 10       Readings    Quiz   Other
Week 11       Readings    Quiz   Other

Quiz Week #1

The quiz has two parts.  The first is about this reading, the second is about the contents of the syllabus.

Part 1:     Science and Hope. Chapter 2; Demon haunted world. Carl Sagan.

See the PDF here.

Your task is to read this chapter for comprehension. First, identify two brief sections that you believe are especially interesting or important. Quote each, then briefly explain what is important about the quoted section and why you chose it. Finally, you should distill what you believe to the the primary thesis of the chapter. Write that thesis as simply and directly as you can.

Type up your answer on a document, and get ready to paste it

Part 2:  

1. How many total points is this class based on?
2. Can you turn in a quiz late?
3. Where can you get online help for this class?
4. What is the Gmail address that you are using for assignments in this course?

When you are ready to answer the quiz and have typed your answers to  part 1 in a document, go ahead and open the following link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dERfcFNNVVpocUQ2bW5GMW5mbUxOVmc6MQ