Bias in research practice refers to_____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Bias in research practice refers to_____________?

   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

2. According to feminists an androcentric bias in research is the direct result of______________?

   A. the funding of certain projects
   B. assuming that men and women are the same
   C. women not being objective
   D. using males as the accepted norm
   E. a lack of female researchers

3. The first step in any sociological research project is to_____________?

   A. collect data
   B. define the problem
   C. review previous research
   D. formulate a hypothesis

4. Research by Lakoff showed that there are some distinct communication differences between men and women In general men tend to_____________?

   A. talk more over the course of the relationship
   B. be politer in their speech patterns
   C. use a greater range of words
   D. not appreciate or encourage self-disclosure as much
   E. use tags the end of sentences

5. The iron law of oligarchy refers to_____________?

   A. regimes that use repression against their population
   B. the exclusion of women from the highest levels of politics
   C. the tendency for power inevitably to flow towards top
   D. the legal system of the former communist countries

6. Socialization is a life process generally divided into two parts primary and secondary socialization Primary refers to_____________?

   A. Socialization at primary school level
   B. Socialization at home
   C. Socialization in early life, as a child
   D. None of these

7. Ethnic identity refers to_____________?

   A. the objective categories of ethnicity used in the census
   B. a felt sense of group membership on the basis of religion language or history
   C. the imposition of a racial label on a minority by a powerful majority
   D. the fragmented and pluralistic nature of ethnicity

8. The term feminization of poverty refers to_____________?

   A. the critical deconstruction of poverty by feminist theorists
   B. women’s increased chances of being in poverty due to low pay and greater welfare dependency
   C. the way in which managing a budget and avoiding poverty tends to be a women’s responsibility within the home
   D. the disproportionate number of female sociologists who do research on poverty

9. The demographic transition refers to_____________?

   A. an increase in the birth rate
   B. an increase in the death rate
   C. an exponential growth in population
   D. a change in the ratio of births to deaths

10. Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________?

    A. a theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society
    B. the precise scientific study of observable phenomena
    C. a theory that posits difficult s and sets out to answer them
    D. an unscientific set of laws about social progress