Sociology Practice Quiz #3
This quiz is to help me study for my sociology exam.
- 1.An ordered series of questions intended to elicit information from research respondents is known as:
- A.
An experiment
- B.
Participant observation
- C.
A case study
- D.
A survey
- 2.Lance is a sociologist who has mailed 10,000 surveys to possible respondents in a population he is studying. He hopes to get responses from, and have a sample of, at least 5,000. This is known as:
- A.
The response rate
- B.
Probing
- C.
Selection bias
- D.
Validity
- 3.The main reason that achieving high response rates and limiting selection bias are so important is that they lead to:
- A.
Increasing generalizability
- B.
Decreasing generalizability
- C.
Increasing validity
- D.
Decreasing validity
- 4.The General Social Survey (GSS) is replicated yearly with a new sample of 2,000 respondents. This is an example of:
- A.
An experiment
- B.
Participant observation
- C.
A repeated cross-sectional survey
- D.
A longitudinal study
- 5.A type of longitudinal study in which the same sample of respondents is tracked over a long period of time is known as:
- A.
An experiment
- B.
Participant observation
- C.
The historical method
- D.
A panel study
- 6.Researchers studying social movements often use which of the following methods, which involves collecting data from written reports and other artifacts that date to a specific time period?
- A.
Experiments
- B.
Audit studies
- C.
Panel surveys
- D.
Historical methods
- 7.The notion that our culture, lacking a history of feudalism, was uniquely individualistic and nonpaternalistic is known as:
- A.
The American Dream
- B.
The American Way
- C.
American exceptionalism
- D.
American history
- 8.Rogers Brubaker (1992) studied the notions of citizen and statehood in both France and Germany. His method of research is known as:
- A.
Comparative research
- B.
A case study
- C.
An experiment
- D.
Content analysis
- 9.The general approach to comparative research is to:
- A.
Study a total population or census
- B.
Find cases that match on every variable
- C.
Use a panel study approach only
- D.
Find cases that match on many potentially relevant dimensions, yet vary on just one
- 10.Perhaps the most difficult method to apply to the social sciences, as compared with laboratory-based natural sciences, is/are:
- A.
Surveys
- B.
Experimental methods
- C.
Historical methods
- D.
Content analysis
- 11.LeeAnn is a graduate student in sociology who is studying media depictions of gun violence in popular films such as Rambo and Scarface. Her choice of methods is known as:
- A.
An audit study
- B.
A panel study
- C.
Content analysis
- D.
Surveys
- 12.In content analysis research, which of the following refers to observations that are implied, but not easily observed?
- A.
Manifest content
- B.
Latent content
- C.
Spurious variables
- D.
Mediating variables
- 13.All of the following are described as golden rules of ethical conduct in social research EXCEPT:
- A.
Do no harm
- B.
Informed consent
- C.
Never debrief
- D.
Voluntary participation
- 14.Research subjects have a right to know that they are participating in a study and what the study consists of. This is known as:
- A.
Involuntary participation
- B.
Informed consent
- C.
Manifest content
- D.
Latent content
- 15.Social research aimed to influence public policy and society as a whole is referred to as:
- A.
Feminist sociology
- B.
Historical sociology
- C.
Private sociology
- D.
Public sociology
- 16.A set of beliefs, traditions, and practices that is the total of the social categories and concepts that people embrace is one definition of:
- A.
Media
- B.
Culture
- C.
Hegemony
- D.
Norms
- 17.The word culture derives from the Latin word colere, which means:
- A.
A cult
- B.
An ideology
- C.
To cultivate
- D.
A plan of action
- 18.In Chapter 3, the pictures of the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial are used as examples of:
- A.
Early U.S. architectural choices in columnar styles
- B.
U.S. nationalism and pride
- C.
Patriarchal power and the institutions they represent
- D.
The only types of buildings acceptable in Washington, D.C.
- 19.Which of the following was a poet and cultural critic who defined culture as the pursuit of perfection and broad knowledge of the world, in contrast to narrow self-centeredness and material gain?
- A.
Matthew Arnold
- B.
Emile Durkheim
- C.
Dalton Conley
- D.
Karl Marx
- 20.One of the two main categories of culture that includes values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors is known as:
- A.
Subculture
- B.
Counterculture
- C.
Nonmaterial or symbolic culture
- D.
Material culture
- 21.Everything in our constructed environment, including technology, buildings, furniture, clothing, and books, is part of:
- A.
Subculture
- B.
Counterculture
- C.
Nonmaterial or symbolic culture
- D.
Material culture
- 22.Slang terms such as LOL, ROFL, and BRB are examples of:
- A.
Nonmaterial culture
- B.
Material culture
- C.
Cultural concepts
- D.
Social norms
- 23.According to ___________, the language we speak directly influences and reflects the way we think about and see the world.
- A.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- B.
The high-low culture debate
- C.
Marxist ideology
- D.
The Law of Averages
- 24.A type of nonmaterial culture known as ____________ is a system of concepts and relationships sometimes used to understand cause and effect.
- A.
High art
- B.
Ideology
- C.
Cultural relativism
- D.
Ethnocentrism
- 25.Galileo’s discovery that the earth revolved around the sun rather than standing at the center of the universe is an example of:
- A.
Cultural relativism
- B.
Emoticons
- C.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- D.
A disproved ideology
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