Question 1

Visual sociology involves studying society through photographs,video recordings,and film.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following best describes quantitative research?

Accepted Answer

A) It relies on written words,symbols and observations. 
B) It occurs exclusively in experimental settings. 
C) It relies on numeric data and precise statistical analyses. 
D) It has not often been used since Durkheim's study of suicide.

Question 3

Today,the percentage of American children who do not live with both parents is

Accepted Answer

A) 82% higher than it was a century ago. 
B) 76% lower than it was a century ago. 
C) not appreciably different than it was a century ago. 
D) Statistics on family arrangements are not available for years prior to 1964.

Question 4

Discuss the functions of the mass media in relation to the construction of reality.

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Question 5

Which of the following best fits the criteria for good empirical research into the prevalence of domestic violence in U.S.households?

Accepted Answer

A) Becky distributes a questionnaire about domestic violence to her sociology class. 
B) Joel counts the number of domestic violence shelters in major metropolitan areas. 
C) Rodney conducts analysis on data he obtained from the U.S.Bureau of Justice Statistics. 
D) Brizy interviews men and women who have been ordered by the court to participate in violence prevention counseling.

Question 6

Describe the role of placebo and nocebo in medical research.How does language affect medical research?

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Question 7

Support for animal rights,advancing awareness of mental illness,and promotion of gun control are causes that have been taken up by

Accepted Answer

A) moral entrepreneurs. 
B) personal billboards . 
C) wealthy minorities. 
D) right-wing conservatives.

Question 8

The social construction of reality assumes that knowledge is

Accepted Answer

A) created by humans. 
B) an obscurantist phenomenon. 
C) objective reality. 
D) universally invariant.

Question 9

The type of unobtrusive research that relies on data gathered earlier,by someone else and for some other purpose is

Accepted Answer

A) visual sociology. 
B) field research. 
C) analysis of existing data. 
D) descriptive statistics.

Question 10

A variable that is presumed to be caused by,or influenced by,another variable is known as a(n):

Accepted Answer

A) indicator. 
B) spurious variable. 
C) independent variable. 
D) dependent variable.

Question 11

Any concept that can take on different values,or that has two or more categories,can be used as a(n)

Accepted Answer

A) hypothesis. 
B) variable. 
C) research question. 
D) theory.

Question 12

For most sociologists,the strength of a sociological study depends on its

Accepted Answer

A) fallibility. 
B) empirical support. 
C) pictograms. 
D) social control.

Question 13

In his research on seventeenth-century crime waves among the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,sociologist Kai Erikson relied on which research methodology?

Accepted Answer

A) virtual analysis 
B) Visual sociology 
C) historical analysis 
D) field research

Question 14

Most social research is guided by theory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The processes through which facts,knowledge,and truth are discovered,made known,reaffirmed,and altered by members of a society is called the _________ of reality.

Accepted Answer

A) social construction 
B) medium 
C) spinoza 
D) politics

Question 16

Sociological research is _____________ because it operates on the assumption that answers to questions about human behavior can be ascertained only through controlled,systematic observations in the real world.

Accepted Answer

A) theoretical 
B) empirical 
C) experimental 
D) probabilistic

Question 17

In __________ research,sociologists observe events as they actually occur.

Accepted Answer

A) survey 
B) field 
C) secondary analysis 
D) historical

Question 18

Discuss how the American Medical Association's recognition of obesity as a disease affects the U.S.economy.

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Question 19

The problem of reactivity can threaten the credibility of sociological research.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Explain how a social researcher could measure levels of racism in a college freshman dorm.

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Exam 3: Building Reality: the Social Construction of Knowledge

Visual sociology involves studying society through photographs,video recordings,and film.

Which of the following best describes quantitative research?

Today,the percentage of American children who do not live with both parents is

Discuss the functions of the mass media in relation to the construction of reality.

Which of the following best fits the criteria for good empirical research into the prevalence of domestic violence in U.S.households?

Describe the role of placebo and nocebo in medical research.How does language affect medical research?

Support for animal rights,advancing awareness of mental illness,and promotion of gun control are causes that have been taken up by

The social construction of reality assumes that knowledge is

The type of unobtrusive research that relies on data gathered earlier,by someone else and for some other purpose is

A variable that is presumed to be caused by,or influenced by,another variable is known as a(n) :

Any concept that can take on different values,or that has two or more categories,can be used as a(n)

For most sociologists,the strength of a sociological study depends on its

In his research on seventeenth-century crime waves among the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,sociologist Kai Erikson relied on which research methodology?

Most social research is guided by theory.

The processes through which facts,knowledge,and truth are discovered,made known,reaffirmed,and altered by members of a society is called the _________ of reality.

Sociological research is _____________ because it operates on the assumption that answers to questions about human behavior can be ascertained only through controlled,systematic observations in the real world.

In __________ research,sociologists observe events as they actually occur.

Discuss how the American Medical Association's recognition of obesity as a disease affects the U.S.economy.

The problem of reactivity can threaten the credibility of sociological research.

Explain how a social researcher could measure levels of racism in a college freshman dorm.