Quiz 2

A  was valid.

B  employed a spurious correlation.

C  misused a control group.

D  used basic research.

A  they have all agreed to participate in the study for monetary compensation.

B  their confidentiality has been guaranteed.

C  they have all read the prior literature on the subject area.

D  they all understand the nature of the study and what will be asked of them.

A  They spend a great deal of time reflecting on their roles in the research process.

B  They openly admit that they are doing sociological research.

C  They maintain narrow and limited definitions of appropriate research methodologies.

D  They observe and record data without letting anyone know they are doing research.

A  conduct a focus group

B  make respondents write out answers during interviews instead of answering verbally

C  ask only open-ended questions

D  cut off interviews at two hours regardless if all questions were answered

A  sampling

B  causation

C  informed consent

D  rapport

A  the larger group of people about whom he or she wishes to generalize

B  the group of people from whom he or she will gather data

C  the group of people whose behavior he or she wishes to change

D  the group of people least often studied in the past

A  For the first time, sociologists do not have to spend the time and money to go talk to people and can do all their work from a computer.

B  For the first time, social networking sites offer sociologists a data set rich enough to test ideas that until now have only been theorized.

C  For the first time, sociologists can find out what young people’s social networks look like.

D  For the first time, sociologists can track the spread of urban legends.

A  a study that concerns itself with media use and popular culture

B  a smaller study used to investigate the feasibility of a larger one

C  a study designed to improve the target population of a larger study

D  a study that definitively answers a question that has been bothering sociologists

A  It may issue recommendations for future research.

B  It may stop the project from going forward, at least until changes have been made.

C  It may provide assistance to any research subjects whose rights have been violated.

D  It may appoint new researchers to complete the project.

A  Participants are usually not completely candid when asked to describe their attitudes and behaviors.

B  Participants are self-selected.

C  Ethnographies tend to have ethical problems that are of central concern to most sociologists.

D  It is difficult for another researcher to repeat or replicate any particular ethnography.

A  an issue of reflexivity.

B  the intervening variable.

C  a spurious variable.

D  a paradigm shift.

A  a double-barreled question.

B  reflexivity.

C  a leading question.

D  a closed-ended question.

A  Ethnography allows the researcher to gather abundant data on a small population.

B  Ethnography requires no training since it is something we all do as human beings.

C  Ethnography is a quick and easy form of social science research.

D  Ethnography requires the researcher to spend little time gaining familiarity with the research subjects.

A  reflexivity

B  reliability

C  objectivity

D  commercial uses

A  college students and symbolism

B  California and college students

C  astrological signs and knowledge of astrology

D  popular attitudes and perceptions

A  internal investigation.

B  content analysis.

C  life history.

D  autoethnography.

A  spurious correlation.

B  operational definition.

C  hypothesis.

D  ethical challenge.

A  response rate

B  thick description

C  validity

D  reflexivity

A  ethnographers’ conclusions may not be applicable to any larger group.

B  ethnographers intervene in the lives of the people they are studying.

C  the presence of ethnographers may alter the behavior of the people they are observing.

D  participants may not consider their own motivations and act out of reflex.

A  the study of scientific processes

B  the study of nature

C  the use of statistics to analyze numerical data

D  the standard procedure for acquiring and verifying empirical knowledge

A  interviews

B  quantitative

C  qualitative

D  ethnography

A  surveys

B  comparative-historical research

C  interviews

D  ethnography

A  representative sample.

B  unobtrusive measure.

C  comparative-historical research.

D  focus group.

A  in which one variable is weighted more than another.

B  in which other demographic variables are taken into account.

C  in which every member of the population has a chance of being included.

D  with only one variable.

A  it is impossible to find enough people through a random sample.

B  interviews are too time-consuming.

C  researchers are only allowed to talk to people who are eighteen and older.

D  it is extremely difficult to guarantee confidentiality to large groups.

A  Interviews sometimes distance the researcher from the messy realities of the social world.

B  Interviews generally lack qualitative data that might better capture social reality.

C  Respondents are not always forthcoming or truthful.

D  Face-to-face interviewing is time-consuming.

A  look for patterns in their data.

B  determine the average age of their interviewees.

C  check for bias in how they asked questions.

D  think up new questions they did not ask.

A  The weighted sample does not target any specific group within the population.

B  The weighted sample more closely resembles the larger population.

C  A weighted sample draws from a larger target population rather than a random one.

D  A weighted sample excludes some members of the population.

A  analyze data

B  choose a research design or method

C  form a hypothesis; give operational definitions to variables

D  disseminate findings

A  ask a respondent about what he or she does not think rather than what he or she does think.

B  ask about two different topics.

C  let the respondent know how the researcher hopes he or she will answer.

D  belittle or insult a group or individual.