Elements of Sociology 4e, Practice Quiz: Chapter 02

. Positivist sociology tends to favor which of the following?

. Which of the following studies people and their culture through fieldwork?

. In ethnographic research, which term refers to insiders who help the researcher in becoming accepted by the community and assist with the interpretation of information and behaviour?

. Narrative research privileges whose perspective(s)?

. What does content analysis tend to study?

. Which of the following is a primary quantitative data generation method?

. The low-income cut-off to measure poverty is an example of which of the following?

. Dr. Brenner examines the effect of hours spent studying on a student's GPA. Hours spent studying is which variable?

. Which measure of central tendency represents the number, score, or result that separates the higher half from the lower half of a given data set?

. A key requirement of any research involving human subjects is that research participants indicate their understanding and acceptance of research conditions. The process of obtaining this acceptance is referred as which of the following?

. Research methodology is defined as the system of methods a researcher uses to gather data on a particular question.

. Critical sociologists maintain that the researcher is the expert and thus the researcher's perspective must be privileged in the research process.

. Quantitative research entails the close examination of characteristics that cannot be counted or measured.

. Dr. Chen examines the cultural practices of immigrant families through a combination of face-to-face interviews and participant observations. This kind of research is referred to as ethnography.

. Narratives can give voice to people who do not usually get to speak directly in research.

. A study of gender representations in advertisements is an example of an institutional ethnography.

. When studying the impact of speeding on the occurrence of car accidents, car accidents are the dependent variable.

. Research shows that the more students study, the better their grades are. This is an example of an inverse correlation.

. Correlation and causation are one and the same thing.

. In the following series of numbers--6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18--the mean is 11.

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