Practice Quiz Chapter 05

. Which of the following is NOT a valid goal of research?

To satisfy a need about some question, pattern, problem, or observation

To identify inequalities in the world

To produce reliable and valid knowledge for the development, implementations, and evaluation of policies and programs

To prove you are right and others are wrong

. Which of the following refers to a set of interrelated ideas that presents a logical, systematic, explicit, and reasonably complete explanation of a process, situation, or observed fact?

Conclusion

Variables

Hypothesis

Theory

. Which of the following is NOT one of the four elements of aging processes, according to Spini et al.?

Multi-functionality

Multiple time frames

Multi-directionality

Multi-dimensionality and interplay of factors

. Which of the following, according to functionalism, does NOT regulate behaviour so that society runs smoothly?

Norms

Roles

Socialization

Agency

. Which perspective on aging provides an analytical framework for understanding the interplay between individual lives and changing social structures, and between personal biography and societal history?

Social exchange perspective

Postmodern perspective

Feminist perspective

Life-course perspective

. According to Estes, which of the following is NOT a premise of the political economy of aging?

The social structures shapes how older individuals are viewed and how they view themselves, thereby affecting their sense of worth and power.

Social policies and politics of aging mirror the inequalities in a social structure and the outcomes of power struggles that emerge because of social factors such as gender, class, and racial stratification.

Social policies embodies that dominant ideologies and beliefs that enforce, support, extend the cumulative advantages and disadvantages in the larger economic, political, and social order.

High activity and maintenance of roles is positively related to a favourable self-concept and a favourable self-concept is positively related to life satisfaction.

. Researchers employing which approach attempt to unravel multiple complex layers of inequality as experienced by individuals typically experiencing marginalization, subjugation, or other forms of discrimination in society?

Activity theory

Continuity theory

Intersectionality theory

Disengagement theory

. Which type of research is based on observations, open-ended interviews, or analyses of textual material to interpret the meanings of what people say, do, or think?

Quantitative methods

Qualitative methods

Mixed methods

Critical methods

. Which of the following is a benefit of cross-sectional research designs?

They alert us to patterns of behaviour that vary by age group.

They enable us to explain the reasons for differences between age groups.

They explain about the process of aging experienced by a given cohort.

They allow us to disentangle age, cohort, and period effects.

. Who tends to volunteer for research studies more often?

Long-term care home residents

Healthier and more educated individuals

Social introverts

Those with conservative view, beliefs, and lifestyles

. Theory, models, perspectives and frameworks can be used interchangeably.

TRUE

FALSE

. Activity theory was one of the first theories used to explain "successful" aging.

TRUE

FALSE

. Structural lag is a period of social change in which social norms and social institutions fail to keep pace with changes in individuals' lives.

TRUE

FALSE

. Intersectionality theory contends that privilege and disadvantage needs to be ignored at the interactions of major systems of inequality embedded in social along age, gender, sexuality, social class, race, and ethnicity lines.

TRUE

FALSE

. There are two primary methods used in social behavioural research: qualitative and quantitative.

TRUE

FALSE

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