Chapter 2 Practice Quiz

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. An ethnography usually relies on what?

Strict objectivity correct incorrect

Direct observation and extended field research correct incorrect

Statistics correct incorrect

Government compliance correct incorrect

Policy correct incorrect

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. Since 1997, Statistics Canada has used the Market Basket Measure (MBM) to establish what?

Minimum wage correct incorrect

A poverty line correct incorrect

Absolute poverty correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. When research participants indicate their understanding and acceptance of the research conditions, what are they providing?

Consensus correct incorrect

Validation correct incorrect

Informed consent correct incorrect

Collegiality correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. "Positivism" is a term used by August Comte to describe which belief?

The belief that social sciences could be studied subjectively correct incorrect

The belief that social sciences could be studied using the same methods as used to study the natural sciences correct incorrect

The belief that the results of social science research will always be affected by the bias of the researcher correct incorrect

The belief that the researcher is an insider and therefore will study their subjects with complete objectivity correct incorrect

The belief that social scientific theories are always correct correct incorrect

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. The more a person exercises the less likely he or she is to have heart disease. What is the dependent variable in this statement?

Heart disease correct incorrect

Exercise correct incorrect

Age correct incorrect

Gender correct incorrect

Running correct incorrect

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. Failing to give proper scrutiny to a statistic is seen in ________

journalists correct incorrect

students correct incorrect

politicians correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

none of the above correct incorrect

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. Robert Allen Humphreys' published PhD dissertation, Tearoom Trade is viewed as a pioneering study of _________

human rights correct incorrect

homosexuality correct incorrect

the hospitality industry correct incorrect

heterosexuality correct incorrect

asexuality correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to informal, face-to-face interviews designed to cover specific topics without the rigid structure of a questionnaire but with more structure than an open interview?

Structured interviews correct incorrect

Semi-structured interviews correct incorrect

Closed interviews correct incorrect

Open interviews correct incorrect

Participant observation correct incorrect

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. Which of the following types of research involves the close examination of characteristics that cannot be counted or measured?

Quantitative correct incorrect

Qualitative correct incorrect

Statistics correct incorrect

Closed-ended questionnaires correct incorrect

Polls correct incorrect

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. Participant observation is a good example of ethnography.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Michel Foucault in The History of Sexuality I states that with regard to sexual deviance, the "deviant" patient is allowed to have a voice that is heard without translation from the outsider/expert.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Quantitative research is often accused of being "soft."

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In the mixed-methods approach to research, quantitative research can be used to confirm or expand on the results of qualitative research, or vice versa.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Polls can be manipulated for political ends.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Edward Said's book Orientalism (1979) documented Eastern attitudes about Western culture.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Auguste Comte coined the term "sociology."

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Discourse analysis focuses only on the use of the spoken language.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect