Quiz Week 2

Week 2 Covers Chapters 2 and 3.  The following quiz questions are based on ideas from those chapters.

The quiz is open notes and open book.  But you need to do your own work, the quiz is not group assignment.

Cheers- Ted

Chapter 1 offered an initial, but somewhat simplified description of social research.   There are several important ways that social research varies.

• Use: basic vrs applied
• Purpose: explore, describe, explain
• Case structure:   within case studies, across cases
• Time points:  cross sectional, longitudinal (time series, panel, cohort), case study
• Data collection techniques.   

1.  What are the main differences between basic and applied research?

2.  What are the major types of data collection techniques?

3.  Time point of data collection is a dimension on which research studies vary. Briefly describe the three main types of longitudinal research.

4.   Explain what a cohort is and give an example of your own (not from class or the book).

Chapter 3

5. ____________  are statements about the nature of things that are not directly tested by a theory.
A. Concepts
B. Assumptions
C. Ideal types
D. Implications

6.   What is a theoretical explanation?

7.  What is a positive relationship?

8.  From our GapMinder (countries) example in class today, describe the relationship between per-capita gdp and life expectancy

A.  causal, positive, though possibly spurious and explainable by other variables like inequality
B.  causal, negative, though possibly spurious and explainable by other variables like inequality
C.  not causal, structural, nonspurious
D.  longitudinal, causal, negative

9.  Why does Neuman call the relationship between theory and research a dynamic duo?

A.  Theory does not remain fixed over time.
B.  Theory frames how we look and think about topics.
C.  Theory has a place in virtually all research
D.  Researchers can extend, refute or modify theory on the basis of results.
E.  All of the above
F.  A, C and D; but not B
G.  A, B and C; but not D

10.  An ideal type is

A.  The best type available
B.  A general description of a situation
C.  An abstract model of an event, process or idea
D.  A pure cross classifying combination of simple concepts


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