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Chapter 1 Multiple choice questions
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Chapter 1 Multiple choice questions
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What is the primary subject and focus of a theory?
The phenomenon of interest
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A set of concepts
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Organization
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None of the above
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The 'linguistic turn' is associated with which perspective?
Classical
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Modern
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Symbolic-interpretive
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Postmodern
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The branch of philosophy that studies assumptions about the nature of reality and existence is:
Epistemology
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Ontology
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Methodology
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Phenomenology
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Which perspective is associated with the epistemological assumption that meaning is fluid and cannot be fixed and therefore knowledge is indeterminate?
Modern
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Symbolic-interpretive
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Postmodern
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Modern, symbolic-interpretive, and postmodern
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According to postmodernism, emancipation from linguistically induced exploitation can only be gained through an awareness of the power of:
Statistics
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Feelings
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Facts
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Language
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Quantitative research methods are a key feature of which theoretical perspective?
Normative
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Postmodern
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Modern
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Symbolic
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Which theoretical perspective makes assumptions that align with an interpretivist epistemology?
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Which of the options below can be defined as a 'category for sorting, organizing, and storing information relevant to the phenomenon of interest'?
Concept
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Theory
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Abstraction
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Heuristic
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Proposing ideas about how concepts relate to a phenomenon of
interest is better known as:
Theorizing
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Abstracting
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Conceptualizing
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Understanding
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Which theoretical perspective produces theories that offer causal explanation, which requires defining the antecedents and/or consequences of the phenomenon of interest and the factors that moderate or modify the relationships between them?
Normative
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Symbolic
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