Sociology MCQs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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