Chapter 3 Practice Quizzes

. The step within the scientific method where a prediction is made.

. Who coined the word sociology and established the discipline as a social science?

. Which of the following best describes positivism?

. This type of research focuses on social elements that can be counted or measured.

. A researcher might poll all of the students in the sociology department to measure their level of support for online textbooks, and then supplement those findings with open-ended interviews of a sample of students. This is an example of

. William Whyte's Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum is a good example of _________ research.

. Which of the following institutions are a good example of the kind of organization that institutional ethnographers study?

. Aileen Ross conducted an institutional ethnography with the following population:

. Which of the following is a key tool for policy sociology, used to identify and describe best practices?

. Which of the following might be a cultural artifact to be used in a content analysis?

. Content analysis is a qualitative research method.

. There is no standard definition for 'poverty' or 'poor'.

. "What college or university do you presently attend?" would be an example of an open-ended question on a survey.

. Dependant variables are presumed to have some effect on another variable.

. Narratives are the purest form of the insider view.

. Dorothy Smith's standpoint theory states that social characteristics such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation strongly condition both the questions sociologists ask and the answers they receive.

. Of the four-audience based types of sociology, policy sociology is the one most likely to reflect the outside expert ideal.

. A theory is an attempt to explain a fact or observed phenomenon.

. To minimize error, researchers do not combine research methods in their work.

. A theory is an observation, not an explanation.

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