SOC 202 -QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
descriptive - ✔✔A study with the research question, "What social and cultural patterns
characterize disadvantaged neighborhoods?" is an example of what kind of study?
exploratory - ✔✔A study with the research question, "How is identity--true or counterfeit--
established in online communities?" is an example of what kind of study?
Overgeneralization - ✔✔Noticing four people on a bus on their phones and concluding that
everyone is obsessed with technology and doesn't want to interact with other people in person
is an example of ______.
Ego-based commitments - ✔✔Resistance to change may occur because of ______.
Interpretivism - ✔✔______ is a research philosophy that emphasizes the importance of
understanding subjective meanings people give to reality.
true - ✔✔When we prematurely jump to conclusions or argue on the basis of invalid
assumptions, we are using illogical reasoning.
T/F
true - ✔✔Scientific research develops a body of knowledge that is continually refined, as
beliefs are rejected or confirmed on the basis of testing empirical evidence.
T/F
false - ✔✔Descriptive research seeks to find out how people get along in the setting under
question, what meanings they give to their actions, and what issues concern them.
T/F
true - ✔✔Evaluation describes or identifies the impact of social policies and programs.
,T/F
false - ✔✔Positivism is the belief that the subjective meanings people give to their
experiences are a key focus for social science research without assuming that social processes
can be objectively identified.
T/F
evaluation - ✔✔Researchers are trying to determine if an after-school tutoring program
resulted in higher test grades among a group of seventh graders. What kind of study is this an
example of?
explanatory - ✔✔A study attempting to answer the research question, "Does the Internet
increase, decrease, or supplement social capital?" is an example of what kind of study?
positivism - ✔✔______ asserts that a well-designed test of a specific prediction can move us
closer to understanding actual social processes.
to figure out what the world is like and why it works as it does - ✔✔What is the main goal of
basic science?
Overgeneralization - ✔✔What is this sentence an example of? "Unlike most people I always
drive the speed limit."
survey - ✔✔Which of the following is an example of a quantitative method?
Postpositvism - ✔✔Supporters of which perspective may worry that researchers, who are
heavy computer users themselves, will be biased in favor of finding positive social effects of
computer use?
focus group - ✔✔Which of the following is an example of a qualitative method?
, true - ✔✔Social science methods can reduce the risk of selective or inaccurate observation
by requiring that we measure and sample phenomena systematically.
T/F
false - ✔✔Personal motivation is not an acceptable motivation to conduct social research.
T/F
true - ✔✔Attributes that can be ordered by magnitude are examples of quantitative data.
T/F
true - ✔✔Using a survey in which each respondent is asked the same set of questions can
reduced the risk of selective or inaccurate observation
T/F
false - ✔✔Focus groups are an example of quantitative research.
T/F
false - ✔✔Applied research does not rely on the scientific method.
T/F
true - ✔✔Social research may also have more immediate, practical concerns than basic
science.
T/F
true - ✔✔The positivist and postpositivist philosophies consider value considerations to be
beyond the scope of science.
T/F
descriptive - ✔✔A study with the research question, "What social and cultural patterns
characterize disadvantaged neighborhoods?" is an example of what kind of study?
exploratory - ✔✔A study with the research question, "How is identity--true or counterfeit--
established in online communities?" is an example of what kind of study?
Overgeneralization - ✔✔Noticing four people on a bus on their phones and concluding that
everyone is obsessed with technology and doesn't want to interact with other people in person
is an example of ______.
Ego-based commitments - ✔✔Resistance to change may occur because of ______.
Interpretivism - ✔✔______ is a research philosophy that emphasizes the importance of
understanding subjective meanings people give to reality.
true - ✔✔When we prematurely jump to conclusions or argue on the basis of invalid
assumptions, we are using illogical reasoning.
T/F
true - ✔✔Scientific research develops a body of knowledge that is continually refined, as
beliefs are rejected or confirmed on the basis of testing empirical evidence.
T/F
false - ✔✔Descriptive research seeks to find out how people get along in the setting under
question, what meanings they give to their actions, and what issues concern them.
T/F
true - ✔✔Evaluation describes or identifies the impact of social policies and programs.
,T/F
false - ✔✔Positivism is the belief that the subjective meanings people give to their
experiences are a key focus for social science research without assuming that social processes
can be objectively identified.
T/F
evaluation - ✔✔Researchers are trying to determine if an after-school tutoring program
resulted in higher test grades among a group of seventh graders. What kind of study is this an
example of?
explanatory - ✔✔A study attempting to answer the research question, "Does the Internet
increase, decrease, or supplement social capital?" is an example of what kind of study?
positivism - ✔✔______ asserts that a well-designed test of a specific prediction can move us
closer to understanding actual social processes.
to figure out what the world is like and why it works as it does - ✔✔What is the main goal of
basic science?
Overgeneralization - ✔✔What is this sentence an example of? "Unlike most people I always
drive the speed limit."
survey - ✔✔Which of the following is an example of a quantitative method?
Postpositvism - ✔✔Supporters of which perspective may worry that researchers, who are
heavy computer users themselves, will be biased in favor of finding positive social effects of
computer use?
focus group - ✔✔Which of the following is an example of a qualitative method?
, true - ✔✔Social science methods can reduce the risk of selective or inaccurate observation
by requiring that we measure and sample phenomena systematically.
T/F
false - ✔✔Personal motivation is not an acceptable motivation to conduct social research.
T/F
true - ✔✔Attributes that can be ordered by magnitude are examples of quantitative data.
T/F
true - ✔✔Using a survey in which each respondent is asked the same set of questions can
reduced the risk of selective or inaccurate observation
T/F
false - ✔✔Focus groups are an example of quantitative research.
T/F
false - ✔✔Applied research does not rely on the scientific method.
T/F
true - ✔✔Social research may also have more immediate, practical concerns than basic
science.
T/F
true - ✔✔The positivist and postpositivist philosophies consider value considerations to be
beyond the scope of science.
T/F
