Midterm 3 study guide for Giddens et al. Chapter 2, "Asking and Answering Sociological Questions"

Have knowledge of the following:

hypothesis
causation
correlation
variable
control
independent variable
dependent variable
ethnography
survey
life history
experiment
historical analysis
fieldwork
pilot study
sample
open-ended questions
representative sample
randon sample
triangulation
reflexivity
measures of central tendency
correlation coefficient
standard deviation
mean
median
mode