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

<p>Begin with a theory or explanation for something, then go out into the world and test it (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Begin by gathering or examining data, and then try to derive a theory or explanation from the data (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers