The study of the interracial friendships conducted by the Tom Smith who heads up the General Social Survey is an example of________________?

A. Observation research
B. A survey
C. Content analysis
D. An experiment

Which of the following would be an example of a random sample? A researcher_________________?

A. Administers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office
B. Examines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city,s telephone book
C. Studies the attitudes of democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city,s list of registered democrats
D. None of the above

William F Whyte’s study of a low-income Italian neighborhood in Boston was a classic example of_____________?

A. Participant observation research
B. A survey
C. Content analysis
D. An experiment

An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class she gives the students essay s She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the_______________?

A. Control group
B. Representative group
C. Experimental group
D. Correlation group

Which of these is not an example of a qualitative research method ?

A. Survey research
B. Ethnography
C. Focus groups
D. Biographical research

What is meant by reflexivity in sociological research ?

A. Research findings feed back into society and as a result may change it
B. Research findings empower the general public making them more confident
C. Research funders have control over research findings and who has access
D. Sociologists learn more about the society they live in

Science aims to be both______________?

A. Philosophical and progressive
B. Complex and against commonsense
C. Experimental and statistical
D. Valid and reliable

Bias in research practice refers to_____________?

A. The investigator being committed to a particular ideology
B. The research team prejudging the meaning of the data
C. The data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research
D. Interpretations being applied to the results

An association between two variables which is in fact caused by other factor(s) is called a_____________?

A. Multiple regression
B. Causal mechanism
C. Spurious correlation
D. Multinomial distribution

One strength of ethnography is that______________?

A. The influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator
B. It usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
C. It is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension
D. It can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities