Sociology Mcqs

A. double barreled questions
B. leading questions
C. contingency questions
D. Matrix questions

A. a meeting
B. an event
C. a moment
D. an Encounter

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

A. sample
B. respondents
C. focus group
D. population

A. multiple regression
B. causal mechanism
C. spurious correlation
D. multinomial distribution

A. the investigator being committed to a particular ideology
B. the research team prejudging the meaning of the data
C. the data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research
D. interpretations being applied to the results

A. the theorist has researched the literatures thoroughly
B. they have been tested out by means of factual research
C. they are written in such a way as to be impossible to disprove
D. they are shared by a large enough number of theorists

A. definitions and indicators can vary making valid comparisons problematic
B. there are no reliable indicators of such widely contested ideas
C. it takes all the fun out of armchair theorizing
D. it has little use for applied empirical research about the topic

A. government white paper
B. confidential medical records
C. household account book
D. the shares register of a business

A. not being able to write comprehensive field notes or record conversations
B. deceiving the respondents as to the reason for your presence
C. observing people outside of their natural setting
D. subjecting the participants to physical harm