A. a medical condition
B. a period of life
C. a state of mind
D. a social category
Related Mcqs:
- A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their age and includes response categories of age 20-30 age 30-40 age 40 50 and age 50+ violates which important rule for constructing closed-ended items for naires ?
A. exhaustive
B. tangible
C. comprehensive
D. relevant
E. mutually exclusive - Which of these is not a criticism that critical realists make of social constructionist approaches to the environment ?
A. social constructionism reminds us that all environmental issues have an important social aspect and context
B. social constructionism remains agnostic about the scientific reality of environmental issues
C. social constructionism tells us more about social interactions than the relationship between society and the environment
D. social constructionism applies standard which demand new theorizing and approaches - 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 - 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 - Social Sciences are pejoratively known as_______________?
A. Soft sciences
B. hard sciences
C. Theoretical
D. None of these - Impressionistic studies are____________?
A. fully controlled
B. less controlled
C. uncontrolled
D. None of these - In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a (n) ?
A. correlation
B. independent variable
C. dependent variable
D. sample
