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Social research

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Epistemology?

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2.

The word epistemology comes from the Greek word episteme that means knowledge and logos that means study or theory, therefore epistemology is the theory of knowledge.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

is the current claim that everything is matter and that the only reality that exists is material the reality.

a)

Materialism

b)

Rationalism

c)

Empiricism

d)

Realism

4.

is the current that states that reality can be known without any prior experience.

a)

Materialism

b)

Rationalism

c)

Empiricism

d)

REalism

5.

asserts that experience is necessary to know something

a)

Materialims

b)

Rationalism

c)

Empiricisim

d)

REalism

6.

Why is it important to understand epistemology?

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7.

Some examples of social issues

a)

investments in housing construction for population that does not need it

b)

omputing the orbits of the planets in the solar system

c)

providing medical assistance programs with models that do not correspond to social or contextual framework

d)

Riemann Hypothesis.

8.

Social research involves the study of problems like: poverty, violence, economic crisis, immigration, environment, among others.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Research is

a)

a particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.

b)

a set of systematic, empirical processes that apply to study of a phenomenon.”

c)

a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

10.

What are the two methods of investigation?

a)

Quantitative

b)

Exploratory

c)

Qualitative

d)

Descriptive

e)

Correlational

11.

The (a)   method is carried out to test a hypothesis looking through the data collection and statistical analysis.

12.

The (a)   method does not use numerical measurement to answer the research questions.

13.

The (a)   method involves linking qualitative and quantitative methods in a single study to answer a specific problem.

14.

What is your object of study?

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15.

Why did you chose that topic from your research?

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