URBS 260: Chapter 1 Review

To understand pressing rural social problems

To gather information to create urban social theory

To assess the adequacy of a particular urban social theory (correct)

To prove personal experiences

Definitions, descriptions of the phenomena of interest, and relational statements (correct)

Observations, surveys, and experiments

Variables, constants, and correlations

Hypotheses, research questions, and predictions

Theories of the middle range (correct)

Symbolic interactionism

Structural functionalism

Grand theories

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