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The study of the interracial friendships conducted by the Tom Smith who heads up the General Social Survey is an example of____________?
A. observation research
B. a survey
C. content analysis
D. an experiment
Which of the following would be an example of a random sample? A researcher_____________?
A. administers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office
B. examines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city’s telephone book
C. studies the attitudes of Democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city’s list of registered Democrats
D. None of the above
Which of these terms is the odd one out ______________?
A. causation
B. correlation
C. association
D. connection
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
Tearoom Trade is typical of the s asked by sociologists because______________?
A. it takes place outside the university campus
B. it makes use of covert research methods
C. it investigates working of society that are different from official accounts
D. the investigator is sympathetic to the activities that he is investigating
In order to genuinely reflect a broad range of the population a survey must be based on precise___________?
A. representative sampling
B. experiments
C. surveys
D. hypotheses
Society cannot be studied in the same way as the natural world because_______________?
A. human behavior is meaningful and varies between individuals and cultures
B. it is difficult for sociologists to gain access to a research laboratory
C. sociologists are not rational or critical enough in their approach
D. we cannot collect empirical data about social life
Which of these is not an example of a qualitative research method ?
A. survey research
B. ethnography
C. focus groups
D. biographical research
In order for a variable to be measured, a researcher must provide a (n) ?
A. operational definition
B. quantitative theorem
C. theory
D. hypothesis
E. scale
Weber said that all knowledge is value-relevant, because____________?
A. sociologists like to put a value on different theories
B. Knowledge refers to people and their values
C. theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values
D. attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable
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