Sociological Research Quiz

What do sociologists use to conduct research?

• Sociological Method

• Scientific Method

• Only surveys

• Only case studies

Which approach to research is helpful with measuring people's attitudes, beliefs, and motives?

• Surveys

• Naturalistic observation

• Experimentation

• Statistical analysis

When sociologists use information that has already been collected to study or compare data, which research approach are they using?

• Existing source analysis

• Case study

• Correlational study

• Experimentation

What is a case study?

• using pre-collected information

• an event that occurs as a result of several factors working in combination

• focus on a single group, incident, or community

• a statement of relationships among well-defined variables

What is a population?

• a group of people who represent a larger population.

• research that involves the pursuit of knowledge in a systematic way

• the stealing of someone else’s work

• the people a researcher wants to study

the degree to which a sociological measure accurately reflects the topic of study

• reliability

• value neutral

• validity

a survey is useful when a sociologist wants to study a large number of people

• true

• false

a testable statement of relationships among well defined variables

• secondary analysis
• guiding question
• causation
• hypothesis

What kind of research relies on numerical data?

• Scientific research

• Sociological research

• Qualitative research

• Quantitative research

When you study the group culture, you would employ an approach called

• grounded theory

• case study

• ethnography