Multiple Choice Questions

contains 17 questions.

	Weber said sociologists need to _________ human behaviour.      understand    control    predict    change    model

	Models are built by      axiomatic logic.    inductive logic.    combining two or more “if, then” statements.    deductive logic.    envisioning a possible world.

	Reliability means ______________.      randomness    consistency    quantifiability    validity    generalizability

	Types of representative sampling are random, quota, and __________.      secondary    cluster    inductive    snowball    content

	“Other things” that affect relationships are called ______ variables.      control    antecedent    dependent    intervening    independent

	Qualitative sociologists do not use the term theory; they use ________.      concept    perspective    logic    paradigm    hypothesis

	In models, participant observers are less concerned with causes and more concerned with __________.      prediction    social change    effects    associations    individuals

	How well the experimenter can generalize to the world is called ________.      the Hawthorne effect    internal validity    quantifiability    reliability    external validity

	When participant observers argue from specific to general statements, it is called _______________.      secondary analysis    deductive logic    axiomatic logic    content analysis    inductive logic

	Verstehen is Weber’s word for      understanding.    involvement.    sampling.    control.    experiment.

	Participant observation can involve as few as _____ case(s).      5    1    100    25    10

	Marxists use a strategy called ____________.      experimentation    praxis    grounded theory    survey research    content analysis

	Research done at one time is called ________________.      quasi-experimental    correlational    longitudinal    replication    cross-sectional

	To ensure validity, researchers often use ___________________.      experimentation    triangulation    participant observation    mathematics    telephone surveys

	Analyzing data collected by others is called ________________.      primary analysis    secondary analysis    triangulation    content analysis    survey research

	The actual procedures used to measure theoretical concepts are _____________      correlation    experiments    participant observation    units of measurement    operational definitions

	Theory rooted in and arising from previously collected data is called __________.      longitudinal data    grounded theory    quasi experimental data    triangulation    cross-sectional research