What is applied social research _________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?

   A. new social movement theory
   B. collective behavior theory
   C. social strain theory
   D. resource mobilization theory

2. A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ?

   A. slavery
   B. Social class
   C. caste
   D. estates

3. When a research is not deceptive about the field research that he/she is this person is probably assuming the role of____________?

   A. secondary observer
   B. participant-as-observer
   C. complete participant
   D. ethnographer
   E. social scientist

4. In survey research the group of respondents targeted for the naire is called _________________?

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

5. Which of the following conducted observation research on two groups of high school males-the Saints and the Roughnecks-and concluded that social class played an important role in the varying fortunes of the two groups ?

   A. Richard Quincy
   B. Edwin Sutherland
   C. Emile Durkheim
   D. William Chambliss

6. Who wrote the first book on the methodology of social research How to Observe Manners and Morals ?

   A. Herbert Spencer
   B. Emily Post
   C. Harriet Martineau
   D. Emile Durkheim

7. When conducting social research what is the next step in the scientific method after a review of the literature ?

   A. collecting data
   B. choosing a research design
   C. selecting a researchable problem
   D. formulating a hypothesis

8. Learning behavior in a social institution or developing social skills is called________________?

   A. Primary
   B. Secondary
   C. Developmental socialization
   D. None of these

9. Sociologist Alvin Goldner sees Erving Goffman’s work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo especially social class inequalities Gouldner,s critique is associated with the_____________?

   A. functionalist perspective
   B. conflict perspective
   C. interactionist perspective
   D. psychoanalytic perspective

10. Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called______________?

    A. social statics
    B. social dynamics
    C. social absolutes
    D. constructed reality