Category: Sociology Mcqs

(A) Their subject matter is fundamentally different to that of the natural sciences
(B) We should aim to achieve the interpretive understanding of social action
(C) It is important to study the way people make sense of their everyday worlds
(D) All of the above

(A) There is no substitute for an in-depth, hermeneutic understanding of society
(B) Scientific research should be based on value-free, empirical observations
(C) Events and discourses in the social world prevent us from having direct knowledge of the natural order
(D) It is important to remain optimistic about our research, even when things go wrong

(A) Involves testing an explicitly defined hypothesis
(B) Does not allow for findings to feed back into the stock of knowledge
(C) Uses quantitative methods whenever possible
(D) Allows theory to emerge out of the data

(A) We should not apply natural science methods to social science research
(B) It is the sociologist’s aim to understand the meaning of social action
(C) Knowledge, in the form of ‘facts’, should be gained through sensory experience
(D) Research conducted within the British Empire was biased and unreliable

(A) One that was proposed by one of the major theorists in the sociological tradition
(B) One that is highly abstract and makes broad generalizations about the social world
(C) An intermediate level explanation of observed regularities
(D) A particularly satisfactory theory that makes the researcher feel happy

(A) Soci
(B) Socius
(C) Socho
(D) Soxio