Question 1

Define the following:social research

Accepted Answer

A process in which a researcher combines a set of principles,outlooks,and ideas with a collection of specific practices,techniques,and strategies to produce knowledge.

Question 2

Katherine Keene,a hospital administrator,heard a lot about gay men getting HIV and AIDS.She watched the male patients at her hospital admitted for AIDS.She thought they all looked like homosexuals as did almost all their male visitors.In fact,at Katherine's hospital,60 percent of the HIV-positive male patients were heterosexual and 80 percent of their visitors were neighbours,co-workers,or immediate family members.She most clearly made which type of error?

Accepted Answer

A)  Selective observation
B)  Premature closure
C)  Overgeneralization
D)  Inattention
E)  None,she made no error. A

Question 3

All of the following characterize applied research,EXCEPT which one?

Accepted Answer

A)  Doing research is usually part of a job assignment and sponsors/supervisors who are not professional researchers will judge/use the results.
B)  Success is based on whether sponsors/supervisors use the results in decision-making.
C)  The primary concern is with the internal logic and rigour of the research design,so a research study attempts to reach the absolute norms of scientific rigour and scholarship.
D)  The driving goal is to produce practical payoffs or uses of the results.
E)  Research problems one can explore are limited by the demands and interests of employers or sponsors. C

Question 4

All of the following characterize exploratory research,EXCEPT which one?

Accepted Answer

A)  Exploratory research has few guidelines to follow.
B)  Exploratory research illuminates understudied areas.
C)  Exploratory research rarely yields definitive answers.
D)  Exploratory research tends to be qualitative.
E)  Exploratory research documents causes,tests theories,and provides reasons.

Question 5

In an effort to identify new ways to attract attention to the sport of road bicycle racing,Andrew Hunt recruits fifty participants and divides them into groups of five.Each group is shown clips of a road bicycle race and then asked to discuss the aspects of the race footage they enjoyed,the aspects of the race footage they did not enjoy,and the likelihood that they would opt to watch a road bicycle race,given the opportunity,in the future.What kind of data collection technique has Andrew Hunt's employed in his research?

Accepted Answer

A)  academic research
B)  experimental research
C)  qualitative interview research
D)  focus group research
E)  survey research

Question 6

Researchers have discovered that when the closure of a manufacturing facility is announced,worker productivity briefly dips and then rises to higher levels than before the announcement was delivered.To better understand why productivity rises in manufacturing facilities after closure announcements,Tikvah Mindorff took a position as a welder inside a manufacturing facility that was in the process of shutting down and carefully observed her fellow workers and their situations.What kind of data collection technique has Tikvah employed in her research?

Accepted Answer

A)  field research
B)  historical research
C)  experimental research
D)  survey research
E)  content analysis

Question 7

Define the following:overgeneralization

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Question 8

Which of the following techniques is used by both qualitative and quantitative researchers?

Accepted Answer

A)  Content analysis
B)  Existing statistics
C)  Field research
D)  Focus groups
E)  Historical comparative research

Question 9

Define the following:existing statistics research

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Question 10

Give an example of a cohort study,describing what features of it make it a cohort study.

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Question 11

Joe Foss studied gender differences in attitudes toward mathematics and science among 45 Grade 1 students.Over the next 12 years,he studied the same 45 children when they were in Grades 5,8,and 12.This is which type of research?

Accepted Answer

A)  Case study research
B)  Cross-sectional research
C)  Time-series research
D)  Panel study research
E)  Action-oriented research

Question 12

In 2010,Professor Dennis Wrong decided to conduct a study of 1000 persons who were married in 1946 to 1948 and were still married.He believed that the social climate,returning veterans,and other changes around the end of World War II affected the decision to marry and what occurred in their first year of marriage.Most likely,Dennis was conducting which type of study?

Accepted Answer

A)  Case study
B)  Panel
C)  Cohort
D)  Time-series
E)  Cross-sectional

Question 13

What precipitates premature closure?

Accepted Answer

A)  the scientific community deprioritizes investigations of a topic for political or cultural reasons
B)  the subjects of a panel study decline continued participations in the research,or are no longer suitable candidates for the research
C)  the subjects of a case study decline continued participations in the research,or are no longer suitable candidates for the research
D)  a researcher feels he or she has the answers and does not need to listen,seek information,or raise questions any longer
E)  a researcher is forced to conclude an investigation due to financial,temporal,or other practical constraints on the research process

Question 14

Which of the following are the two major approaches or orientations to social research methods?

Accepted Answer

A)  Micro and macro
B)  Qualitative and quantitative
C)  Explanatory and exploratory
D)  Applied and academic
E)  Cross-sectional and longitudinal

Question 15

Below are five of the seven steps of a research project in scrambled order.Of the five listed below,which one is supposed to be third in the sequence?

Accepted Answer

A)  Interpret findings
B)  Collect data
C)  Design study
D)  Focus project.
E)  Analyze the data

Question 16

What is the scientific community and who belongs to it?

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Question 17

Define the following:qualitative data

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Question 18

Explain how you would distinguish a qualitative from a quantitative social research study,and identify four quantitative and four qualitative date collection techniques.

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Question 19

Define the following:data

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Question 20

Define the following:survey research

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Exam 1: Doing Social Research