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These is glossary of research key terms. This glossary is intended as an aid to
professionals and non-professionals who find the world of research
somewhat intimidating. While it is impossible to cover all the terms
that can be confusing, this document briefly defines some of the more
common terms and concepts. | |
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| Term | Definition |
| Empirical regularities | Where correlation is found between two variables (not necessarily cause and effect) |
| Empiricism | Approach that assumes that truth comes only from direct experience. |
| Ethnicity | of or pertaining to combinations of race, culture, nationality and/or religion. |
| Ethnography | A research methodology associated with anthropology and sociology that systematically describes the culture of a group of people. The goal of ethnographic research is to understand the natives'/insiders' view of their own world (an emic view of the world). |
| Ethnomethodology | 1. Method whereby real social situations are disturbed to discover reactions and hence internal conceptions and social rules.2. Systematic study of the ways in which people use social interaction to make sense of their situation and create their 'reality'. This research methodology, associated with sociology, focuses on how people understand their everyday activities. |
| Etic perspective (etic view) | A term used by ethnographers to refer to the outsider's view of the experiences of a specific cultural group (see emic perspective). |
| Expected Frequencies | For chi square, the number of cases that would be expected in a particular cell of the crosstab if the two variables were unrelated to each other. |
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