Sociology MCQs
| 1. The concepts of age, sex and race are (Points : 1) |
Ascribed statuses
Achieved statuses
Demographic variables
Achieved statuses and Demographic variables
2. Applied research is a designed for a particular use, such as evaluating a program. (Points : 1) True False |
3. Sociologists focus on _____________ behavior Individual Group Adolescent Animal |
4. A city councilman broke the law by taking money from a company who was then awarded a city contract, and was then forced to resign. Which term best explains his behavior? Role strain Role confusion Role conflict Folkway |
5. Someone calls you on the phone and asks you who you are going to vote for. This is what kind of research? Interview Poll Experiment Field research |
6. Which type of research starts by collecting data and analyzing it to look for patterns? Inductive Deductive |
7. What is the term used by sociologists to explain how they will measure a variable? Interactionism Deduction Induction Operationalization |
8. What kind of survey question is the following: “Do you like summer and going to the beach and hiking in the mountains?” A double-barreled question that is hard to answer A clearly easy to answer question A quantitative question A nonparametric question |
9. Sociologists strive to avoid being biased when selecting a topic of analyzing data so that one can let the facts speak for themselves. This principle is known as Value free sociology Subjectivity Deduction Interactionism |
10. You occupy a _____________ and you play a ____________. Status, role Role, status Role, role Status, status |
