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This section includes 1534 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Sociology Mcqs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1351. |
Mary Kaldor (2006) argues that globalization processes lie at the heart of many new wars Which of the following is not an example of the increasing globalization of conflict ? |
| A. | the presence of diaspora volunteer fighters |
| B. | the recourse of combatants to small -scale guerrilla tactics |
| C. | the involvement of international NGOs |
| D. | the role of multinational United Nations peacekeeping troops |
| Answer» C. the involvement of international NGOs | |
| 1352. |
The validity of laboratory experiment is doubtful in sociology because the people being observed are_____________? |
| A. | unconscious |
| B. | conscious and behave artificially |
| C. | behave naturally |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. behave naturally | |
| 1353. |
Who stated that war is the continuation of political intercourse by other means ? |
| A. | Carl von Clausewitz |
| B. | Martin Shaw |
| C. | Karl Marx |
| D. | Mary Kaldor |
| Answer» C. Karl Marx | |
| 1354. |
What name did Norbert Elias give to the dynamic of competition between social units that eventually gave rise to a nation state ? |
| A. | the absolutist mechanism |
| B. | the decivilizing process |
| C. | the monopoly mechanism |
| D. | the courtizaion process |
| Answer» D. the courtizaion process | |
| 1355. |
Experiments are of two types_____________? |
| A. | Laboratory |
| B. | Field |
| C. | both A & B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1356. |
Judicial decisions are a part of_____________? |
| A. | Convention |
| B. | British constitution |
| C. | American constitution |
| D. | None of them |
| Answer» C. American constitution | |
| 1357. |
The Scientific study of human social life is termed as______________? |
| A. | Society |
| B. | Sociology |
| C. | Anthropology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Anthropology | |
| 1358. |
In idealized views of science the experimental method is said to involve ? |
| A. | testing out new research methods to see which one works best |
| B. | isolating and measuring the effect of one variable upon another |
| C. | using personal beliefs and values to decide what to study |
| D. | interpreting data subjectively drawing on theoretical paradigms |
| Answer» C. using personal beliefs and values to decide what to study | |
| 1359. |
A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically called a (n)_____________? |
| A. | sample |
| B. | experiment |
| C. | research design |
| D. | scientific method |
| Answer» D. scientific method | |
| 1360. |
A researcher examines the literature written by Black novelists during the “Negro Renaissance” (1913-1935) to see if they reflect the political movements going on in the Black community in the United States at that time What type of research methodology is being used in this example ? |
| A. | secondary analysis |
| B. | interviews |
| C. | observation |
| D. | content analysis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1361. |
Max Weber_______________? |
| A. | recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work |
| B. | stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects |
| C. | emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 1362. |
An experiment can be defined as______________? |
| A. | an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions |
| B. | a piece of research conducted in a laboratory |
| C. | a piece of research trying out new methods |
| D. | an attempt to deceive participants about the research’s true purpose |
| Answer» B. a piece of research conducted in a laboratory | |
| 1363. |
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 |
| Answer» D. multinomial distribution | |
| 1364. |
In survey research the group of respondents targeted for the naira is called___________? |
| A. | sample |
| B. | respondents |
| C. | focus group |
| D. | population |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1365. |
When a research is not deceptive about the field research that he/she is this person is probably assuming the role of____________? |
| A. | secondary observer |
| B. | participant-as-observer |
| C. | complete participant |
| D. | ethnographer |
| E. | social scientist |
| Answer» C. complete participant | |
| 1366. |
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 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1367. |
One of the difficulties in open rationalizing concepts like social class is that____________? |
| A. | definitions and indicators can vary making valid comparisons problematic |
| B. | there are no reliable indicators of such widely contested ideas |
| C. | it takes all the fun out of armchair theorizing |
| D. | it has little use for applied empirical research about the topic |
| Answer» B. there are no reliable indicators of such widely contested ideas | |
| 1368. |
Theoretical approaches can only be said to be, valid. if______________? |
| A. | the theorist has researched the literatures thoroughly |
| B. | they have been tested out by means of factual research |
| C. | they are written in such a way as to be impossible to disprove |
| D. | they are shared by a large enough number of theorists |
| Answer» C. they are written in such a way as to be impossible to disprove | |
| 1369. |
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 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1370. |
Which one of the following is exposed to an independent variable ? |
| A. | the control groups |
| B. | the representative group |
| C. | the experimental group |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 1371. |
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 |
| Answer» C. content analysis | |
| 1372. |
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 |
| Answer» D. correlation group | |
| 1373. |
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 |
| Answer» D. multinomial distribution | |
| 1374. |
In order for field research to be successful the researcher must be________________? |
| A. | tactful |
| B. | creative |
| C. | unobtrusive |
| D. | fluent in several languages |
| E. | discreet |
| Answer» C. unobtrusive | |
| 1375. |
Collecting information regarding crime control from several countries would be a good example of a(n)_________________? |
| A. | ethnography |
| B. | field research |
| C. | an international approach |
| D. | content analysis |
| E. | comparative approach |
| Answer» F. | |
| 1376. |
The major advantage of interviews is________________? |
| A. | that people are more likely to be honest |
| B. | they are not time consuming |
| C. | the interviewer can guess the age of the respondent |
| D. | the response rate is high |
| E. | that the researcher can ask more detailed s |
| Answer» E. that the researcher can ask more detailed s | |
| 1377. |
A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their level of education and includes response categories of some high school high school and university violated which important rule for constructing close-ended items for naires ? |
| A. | exhaustive |
| B. | mutually exclusive |
| C. | comprehensive |
| D. | tangible |
| E. | relevant |
| Answer» B. mutually exclusive | |
| 1378. |
Closed-ended s increase the return rate of the naire because___________? |
| A. | the s is clearly worded |
| B. | they cover the return postage |
| C. | the answers are mutually exclusive |
| D. | they are easy and quick to answer |
| E. | they involve no thought on the part of the respondent. |
| Answer» E. they involve no thought on the part of the respondent. | |
| 1379. |
In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a(n)_____________? |
| A. | correlation |
| B. | independent variable |
| C. | dependent variable |
| D. | sample |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1380. |
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 |
| Answer» D. an experiment | |
| 1381. |
Which of the following did the pst-war welfare state of 1948 not aim to provide ? |
| A. | free health care and education for all |
| B. | a minimum wage |
| C. | full employment |
| D. | universal welfare |
| Answer» C. full employment | |
| 1382. |
In order to genuinely reflect a broad range of the population a survey must be based on precise ? |
| A. | representative sampling |
| B. | experiments |
| C. | surveys |
| D. | hypotheses |
| Answer» B. experiments | |
| 1383. |
Eyeballing is a technique that involves________________? |
| A. | reading a textual document quickly to understand the gist of it |
| B. | gathering a sample from whoever you can see in a public place |
| C. | scanning a table to identify general patterns and significant figures |
| D. | keeping your eyes on research participants at all times |
| Answer» D. keeping your eyes on research participants at all times | |
| 1384. |
Pure Sociology is a search for knowledge without primary concern for its______________? |
| A. | Basic understanding |
| B. | Practical use |
| C. | Applied use |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Applied use | |
| 1385. |
Cooley presented the idea of”looking glass self” a personality type in which self is discovered through ? |
| A. | Persons,s own image about himself/herself |
| B. | Reactions of others |
| C. | Mixture of both |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Mixture of both | |
| 1386. |
Ethnographic research produces qualitative data because_____________? |
| A. | the findings are amenable to statistical analysis |
| B. | it is conducted over a period of several years |
| C. | it uncovers rich detailed accounts from an insider’s perspective |
| D. | it compares findings from a number of different cases |
| Answer» D. it compares findings from a number of different cases | |
| 1387. |
According to Scott (1990) a document is authentic if it________________? |
| A. | is a sincere and accurate account free from political bias |
| B. | is representative of all the similar documents that did not survive |
| C. | has both a literal and an interpretable meaning |
| D. | is a sound original, or reliable copy of known authorship |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1388. |
Standard deviation in statistics is the measure that indicates in the essence of______________? |
| A. | Central tendency |
| B. | spread of the sample means/values |
| C. | Both A an B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. spread of the sample means/values | |
| 1389. |
An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning In one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class 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 |
| Answer» D. correlation group | |
| 1390. |
The concepts in a hypothesis are stated as______________? |
| A. | variables |
| B. | populations |
| C. | ideas |
| D. | indices |
| E. | theories |
| Answer» B. populations | |
| 1391. |
In sociology_______________? |
| A. | theory always precedes research |
| B. | theory can be developed independent of research |
| C. | research always precedes theory |
| D. | the relationship between theory and research is cyclical |
| E. | research is dictated by the theoretical perspective |
| Answer» E. research is dictated by the theoretical perspective | |
| 1392. |
A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically called a (n) ? |
| A. | sample |
| B. | experiment |
| C. | research design |
| D. | scientific method |
| Answer» D. scientific method | |
| 1393. |
A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey ? |
| A. | interviews |
| B. | naires |
| C. | representative samples |
| D. | observation techniques |
| Answer» B. naires | |
| 1394. |
Formulating the hypothesis is the _________ step in the scientific method? |
| A. | first |
| B. | second |
| C. | third |
| D. | fourth |
| Answer» D. fourth | |
| 1395. |
A double barreled has the potential of having______________? |
| A. | two respectable responses/answers |
| B. | two answers but incompatible with each other |
| C. | Both A and B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1396. |
A researcher was able to prove that, on average as age increases eyesight declines In research terminology this is called a (n) ? |
| A. | variation |
| B. | correlation |
| C. | observation |
| D. | measure of central tendency |
| E. | spurious relationship |
| Answer» C. observation | |
| 1397. |
A mean, median and mode are all examples of_______________? |
| A. | measures of variation |
| B. | measures of central tendency |
| C. | measures of enumeration |
| D. | measures of correlation |
| E. | measures of coefficients |
| Answer» C. measures of enumeration | |
| 1398. |
Tearoom Trade is typical of the s asked by sociologists because_______________? |
| A. | it takes place outside the university campus |
| B. | it makes use of covert research methods |
| C. | it investigates workings of society that are different from official accounts |
| D. | the investigator is sympathetic to the activities that he is investigating |
| Answer» D. the investigator is sympathetic to the activities that he is investigating | |
| 1399. |
_____________ uses multiple data collection methods on the same area of interest? |
| A. | Triangulation |
| B. | Ethnography |
| C. | Field research |
| D. | Variation |
| E. | Cluster sampling |
| Answer» B. Ethnography | |
| 1400. |
Which of these terms is the odd one out ? |
| A. | causation |
| B. | correlation |
| C. | association |
| D. | connection |
| Answer» B. correlation | |