| 1. The concepts of age, sex and race are (Points : 1) |
Ascribed statuses
Achieved statuses
Demographic variables
Achieved statuses and Demographic variables
| 2. Applied research is a designed for a particular use, such as evaluating a program. (Points : 1) |
True
False |
| 3. Sociologists focus on _____________ behavior |
Individual
Group
Adolescent
Animal |
| 4. A city councilman broke the law by taking money from a company who was then awarded a city contract, and was then forced to resign. Which term best explains his behavior? |
Role strain
Role confusion
Role conflict
Folkway |
| 5. Someone calls you on the phone and asks you who you are going to vote for. This is what kind of research? |
Interview
Poll
Experiment
Field research |
| 6. Which type of research starts by collecting data and analyzing it to look for patterns? |
Inductive
Deductive |
| 7. What is the term used by sociologists to explain how they will measure a variable? |
Interactionism
Deduction
Induction
Operationalization |
| 8. What kind of survey question is the following: “Do you like summer and going to the beach and hiking in the mountains?” |
A double-barreled question that is hard to answer
A clearly easy to answer question
A quantitative question
A nonparametric question |
| 9. Sociologists strive to avoid being biased when selecting a topic of analyzing data so that one can let the facts speak for themselves. This principle is known as |
Value free sociology
Subjectivity
Deduction
Interactionism |
| 10. You occupy a _____________ and you play a ____________. |
Status, role
Role, status
Role, role
Status, status |
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