A. an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
B. a piece of research conducted in a laboratory
C. a piece of research trying out new methods
D. an attempt to deceive participants about the research’s true purpose
Related Mcqs:
- An experiment can be defined as______________?
A. an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
B. a piece of research conducted in a laboratory
C. a piece of research trying out new methods
D. an attempt to deceive participants about the research’s true purpose - The validity of laboratory experiment is doubtful in sociology because the people being observed are_____________?
A. unconscious
B. conscious and behave artificially
C. behave naturally
D. None of these - Sometimes the scientist personally participates in some experiment to observe it fully It is Known as_____________?
A. Personal studies
B. Participant-observer studies
C. Observational studies
D. None of these - Functionalists view social control as_______________?
A. operating to favor powerful groups at the expense of others
B. an indispensable functional requirement for social survival
C. a source of social chaos
D. both b and c - Structural-Functionalists describe society as_______________?
A. a complex network of interaction at a micro-level
B. a source of conflict inequality and alienation
C. an unstable structure of social relations
D. a normative framework of roles and institutions - The activity of measuring and explaining the size of populations is know as_______________?
A. Malthusianism
B. demography
C. forecasting
D. official statistics - Older people living in housing for the elderly workers in an offshore oil rig rodeo cowboys and circus performers-all are examples of what sociologists refer to as_______________?
A. subcultures
B. countercultures
C. cultural universals
D. argot - Constructionist studies of old age view it as_______________?
A. a medical condition
B. a period of life
C. a state of mind
D. a social category - Social Sciences are pejoratively known as_______________?
A. Soft sciences
B. hard sciences
C. Theoretical
D. None of these - In an experiment two groups are identical except for the change that researchers introduce into one group That group is called______________?
A. the contaminated group
B. the control groups
C. the experimental group
D. the neutral standard
