paradigm - leads to a theory: a perspective or set of ideas, a way of looking at and thinking about something, theory - a statement of how and why specific facts are related, micro - an individual unit of analysis, macro - a unit of analysis for an entire system, positivist - this research is the study of society based on scientific observations (empirical) of social behavior, concept - A mental construct which represents some part of the world in a simplified form, an example is "poverty", variable - A concept whose value changes from case to case, "poverty" is calculated by income, length of time, etc, measurement - The procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific case, operationalize - specify exactly what is to be measured before assigning a value to a variable, median - In data, the score or value at the halfway point in a listing of values from lowest to highest. (helps to indicate range), reliability - In research, something has this if it has validity and is consistent, correlation - when two or more variables in a relationship change together (at the same time), cause and effect - when change in one variable causes change in another, Independent Variable - the variable that causes the change, Dependent variable - the variable that is changed, spurious correlation - apparent but false relationship between two or more variables that is, in fact, caused by other variables, objectivity - personal neutrality in conducting research, functionalism - this theory aligns with positivist research best, integrity - one of the Quaker spices which should guide research,

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