社会调查研究与方法复习题(1)

社会调查研究与方法复习题(1)

选择题

1. ___________ are fundamental frames of reference.

A.perspectives

B.theories

C.paradigms

D.methods

2. _______________ can lend insights into the nature of interactions in ordinary social life.

A.symbolic interactionism

B.conflict theory

C.structural functionalism

D.feminist theory

3. __________ is/are systematic sets of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspect of social life.

A.answers

B.knowledge

C.practicality

D.theories

4. Though the norm of voluntary participation is important, it is often:

A.justifiably violated

there is a causal relationship between education and racial tolerance?

A.there is a statistical correlation between the two variables

B.a person’s educational level occurred before their current level of tolerance

C.there is no third variable that can explain away the observed correlation

D.all of these choices

9. A _____________ is probabilistic and usually incomplete.

A.nomothetic explanation

B.correlation

C.spurious relationship

D.theory

10. The ___________ of concepts in scientific inquiry depends on nominal and operational definitions.

A.specification

B.interchangeability

C.functioning

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11. A level of measurement describing a variable

whose attributes are rank-ordered and have equal distances between adjacent attributes are ________.

A.ratio measures

B.interval measures

C.nominal measures

D.ordinal measures

12. In the simplest experimental design, subjects are measured in terms of a _________ variable exposed to an _________ variable.

A.pretested; posttested

B.fluid; static

C.independent; dependent

D.dependent; independent

13. Which of these are among the many advantages that underlie the growing popularity of telephone surveys?

A.money

B.time

C.convenience

D.all of these choices

14. A___________ is an instrument specifically designed to elicit information that will be useful for

analysis.

A.questionnaire

B.statement

C.query

D.none of these choices

15. ___________ refers to mental images.

A.perspectives

B.theories

C.conception

D.methods

16.The three main elements of the traditional model of science are

A.theory, operationalization, observation.

B.operationalization, hypothesis testing, theory.

C.observation, experimentation, operationalization.

D.theory, observation, hypothesis testing.

17. Which of the following is the best example of a hypothesis?

A.The greater the level of education, the greater the tolerance for alternative lifestyles.

B.Socialization in childhood has a significant impact on adolescent gender-role identity.