Category: Sociology Mcqs

(A) The interviewer and their respondents write at different times
(B) It cannot take place on the World Wide Web
(C) It occurs in real time, with participants responding to questions immediately
(D) It cannot be conducted by email

(A) The sample of web sites is only as good as the keywords used to search for them
(B) It is difficult to find any web sites about most topics in social research
(C) New web sites are constantly appearing while others are disappearing
(D) The content of web sites is likely to change as they are updated

(A) It is inherently superior to mono-strategy research
(B) It must be competently designed and conducted
(C) It must be appropriate to the research questions
(D) The skills of all researchers must be well integrated

(A) When the researcher abandons their original strategy and starts all over again
(B) When the second research strategy is used to explain unexpected or puzzling results
(C) When there is a paradigm shift from quantitative to qualitative research
(D) When it is ethically unsound to use only one research strategy

(A) By reducing the standard deviation of scores around the mean
(B) By allowing the researcher to interview first women, and then men
(C) By revealing both the macro and the micro level
(D) By making it unnecessary to have more than one stage in the research process

(A) By identifying a sample of respondents for a follow-up study
(B) By providing hard, statistical data about them
(C) By making the research more value-laden and subjective
(D) By helping to explain the relationship between two variables

(A) Symmetrical
(B) Statistical
(C) Processual
(D) Proverbial

(A) By identifying specific groups of people to be interviewed
(B) By showing the frequency of different responses to a survey item
(C) By imposing a rigorous positivist framework on it
(D) By combining laboratory experiments with structured observation