Russel-Research-Method-in-Anthropology

Subject Index 787
simple scales, 318–19, 320
‘‘Since the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens’’
(Loftus and Marburger), 249
single indicator scales, 318–19, 320
single-link clustering, 690–91, 692
Six Culture Study, 422–23
skepticism, 4
skewed distribution, 172, 172, 575
Skinner, B. F., 82
small-world experiment, 136–37
snowball sampling, 187, 192, 193. See
sampling, chain referral
social activism, positivism and, 18
social contact theory, 64
social contract, 11–12
social desirability effect, 250
social facts problem, 89–90
social indicators, 569
Social Physics (Quételet), 18
social research: cause and effect, 28,
60–66; as a craft, 1–2; measurement,
28, 35–37, 45–49; qualitative vs. quantitative,
24–25; 451–52; reliability, 28,
54; sameness within social sciences,
2–3. See also research designs; theory;
validity; variables
social sciences: development of, 10–12;
success and failures of, 15–18
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
98, 99
Society for Applied Anthropology, 75
sociobiological paradigm, 79
socioeconomic status (SES), 37, 319
Sociological Abstracts, 103–4
sociology, naming controversy, 14
Solomon four-group design, 121, 121–22
Spearman, Charles E., 676
Spearman’s r, 621–22
specialized informants, 196, 200–202,
206–7
Spence, Janet, 44
Spier, Leslie, 343
split-half reliability test, 333
spot sampling, 413, 425. See also time
allocation studies
spuriousness, 61, 62–63
Stalin, Josef, 6
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of 186
societies (Murdock and White), 516
standard deviation, 170, 581–83
standard error (SE), 170, 587
standard error of the mean (SEM), 587
standardized coefficients, 666
standardized values, 671
standard scores, 171, 590–91
static group comparison, 126–28
statistical power, 642–44
statistical significance, 585–86, 595, 642
statistical significance testing, 595; chisquare,
592; F-ratio 601; gamma,
618–19; Pearson’s r, 630–32; t-test,
two sample, 597–98; validity of,
640–44
stem-and-leaf plots, 573–74, 574
stepwise multiple regression, 667
stimulus group, 110, 111
strategic methods, 3, 343–44
stratified random sampling, 153–56
Street Corner Society (Whyte), 197
street-intercept survey, 161, 257
string variables, 555
structure, 87
structured interviewing, 212, 251–317.
See also cultural domain analysis;
interviewing; questionnaires
The Subjection of Women (Mill), 18
subjectivity, 22
sucker bias, 361
sufficient condition, 548
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL),
396
sum of the squares, 598, 599–600
superstructure, 87
Supreme Court, U.S., 147, 438
survey research. See questionnaires
SYMLOG (Bales and Cohen), 420
symmetric, 685
synoptic problem, 474
syntax, 480