In His Study of New England's Puritans,Kai Erikson Concluded That

question 80

Multiple Choice

In his study of New England's Puritans,Kai Erikson concluded that

• A)people everywhere define mostly the same things as deviant.
• B)very religious people create very little deviance.
• C)even this disciplined and highly religious group created deviance to clarify the moral boundaries of their community.
• D)the proportion of people in the population that the Puritans defined as deviant kept rising over time.

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Definitions:

Manipulation of Variable

The process in experimental research of changing one variable to determine if changes in one variable cause changes in another variable.

Confounds

Variables that obscure the clear understanding of the relationship between different variables in a study, due to their intertwined effects.

Dependent Variable

In scientific research, the variable that is measured to see how it is affected by changes in another variable (the independent variable).

Independent Variable

In research, this is the variable that is manipulated or changed to observe its effect on a dependent variable.