Quiz 2

A  misused a control group.

B  was valid.

C  employed a spurious correlation.

D  used basic research.

A  their confidentiality has been guaranteed.

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

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

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

A  They openly admit that they are doing sociological research.

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

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

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

A  ask only open-ended questions

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

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

D  conduct a focus group

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

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

C  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.

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 study designed to improve the target population of a larger study

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

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

A  It may appoint new researchers to complete the project.

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

C  It may issue recommendations for future research.

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

A  Participants are self-selected.

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

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

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

A  an issue of reflexivity.

B  a paradigm shift.

C  the intervening variable.

D  a spurious variable.

A  a double-barreled question.

B  a leading question.

C  reflexivity.

D  a closed-ended question.

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

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

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

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

A  reliability

B  commercial uses

C  objectivity

D  reflexivity

A  California and college students

B  astrological signs and knowledge of astrology

C  popular attitudes and perceptions

D  college students and symbolism

A  life history.

B  content analysis.

C  internal investigation.

D  autoethnography.

A  ethical challenge.

B  hypothesis.

C  spurious correlation.

D  operational definition.

A  response rate

B  validity

C  thick description

D  reflexivity

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

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

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

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

A  the study of nature

B  the study of scientific processes

C  the standard procedure for acquiring and verifying empirical knowledge

D  the use of statistics to analyze numerical data

A  quantitative

B  interviews

C  qualitative

D  ethnography

A  interviews

B  ethnography

C  surveys

D  comparative-historical research

A  unobtrusive measure.

B  focus group.

C  comparative-historical research.

D  representative sample.

A  in which one variable is weighted more than another.

B  with only one variable.

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

D  in which other demographic variables are taken into account.

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

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

C  interviews are too time-consuming.

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

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

B  Respondents are not always forthcoming or truthful.

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

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

A  determine the average age of their interviewees.

B  think up new questions they did not ask.

C  check for bias in how they asked questions.

D  look for patterns in their data.

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

B  The weighted sample more closely resembles the larger population.

C  A weighted sample excludes some members of the population.

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

A  form a hypothesis; give operational definitions to variables

B  choose a research design or method

C  disseminate findings

D  analyze data

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

B  ask about two different topics.

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

D  belittle or insult a group or individual.