SOC 1501 Comprehensive Self-Quiz Review For Students | Questions And Answers, Latest Update | 100% Correct Answers | Graded

SOC 1501 Comprehensive Self-Quiz Review For Students | Questions And Answers, Latest

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SOC 1502 Introduction to Sociology – All Self Quizzes

SELF QUIZ 1
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Sociological studies test relationships in which change in one __________ causes change
in another.
Select one:

a. test subject

b. behaviour
c. variable

d. operational definition
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The correct answer is: variable

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Weber believed humans could not be studied purely objectively because they were
influenced by:
Select one:

a. drugs

b. their culture
c. their genetic makeup

d. the researcher
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The correct answer is: their culture

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Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic interactionist?
Select one:
a. surveys

,SOC 1502 Introduction to Sociology – All Self Quizzes


b. participant observation

c. quantitative data analysis
d. none of the above
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The correct answer is: participant observation

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The main difference between ethnography and other types of participant observation is:
Select one:

a. ethnography isn't based on hypothesis testing

b. ethnography subjects are unaware they're being studied
c. ethnographic studies always involve minority ethnic groups

d. there is no difference
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The correct answer is: ethnography isn't based on hypothesis testing

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The difference between positivism and interpretive sociology relates to:
Select one:
a. whether individuals like or dislike their society

b. whether research methods use statistical data or person-to-person research
c. whether sociological studies can predict or improve society

d. all of the above

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The correct answer is: whether sociological studies can predict or improve society

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Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological __________ to study
how society affects individuals.
Select one:
a. culture

b. imagination

c. method
d. tool
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The correct answer is: imagination

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In a study, a group of 10-year-old boys are fed doughnuts every morning for a week and
then weighed to see how much weight they gained. Which factor is the dependent variable?
Select one:
a. the doughnuts

b. the boys
c. the duration of a week

d. the weight gained
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The correct answer is: the weight gained

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Who believed that the history of society was one of class struggle?
Select one:

a. Emile Durkheim

b. Karl Marx
c. Erving Goffmann

d. George Herbert Mead
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The correct answer is: Karl Marx

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What research method did John S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd mainly use in their
Middletown study?
Select one:
a. secondary data

b. survey

c. participant observation
d. experiment

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The correct answer is: participant observation

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Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?
Select one:
a. astrology

b. economics

c. physics
d. history
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The correct answer is: economics

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Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to:
Select one:

a. compare the behaviour of individuals from different societies
b. compare one society to another