Seize the toupee!
This quiz covers material from 6,7,8 and 13. Emphasis is placed on concepts discussed in the book and class. Remember that you can use your notes and the book while completing your quiz. But you need to do all of your own work on the quiz.
1. Employing multiple systems to learn about the same question or context is called:
A. Theoretical sampling
B. Triangulation
C. Perspective taking
D. Operationalization
2. Suppose that you wanted to study what OU students are like today, and you suspected that because of the higher cost of education more students are behaving like “serious students”. If you wanted to study this, the first thing you would need to do is refine your __________ of serious student. Then you would need to ______________ that by creating __________ to measure different levels of being a serious student.
A. conceptual definition . . . . operationalize . . . indicators
B. variable . . . . . . measure . . .. . . dimensions
C. indicator . . . . . opererationalize . . . . . dimensions
D. indicator . .. . . . dimensionalize. . . . . . constructs
3. A major difference between quantitative and qualitative research design is that qualitative designs will often start by finding a _____________ and deciding on a ____________
A. community to study . . . . variable to operationalize.
B. dimension to analyze . . . ..population to sample.
C. bicycle . . . . fish to pedal it.
D. community to study . . . . . perspective to approach that study from.
4. The process of operationalization is one of
A. combining down home wisdom with a few raw facts
B. translating concepts into a set of conditions that can be observed from data.
C. translating indicators into concepts that can be collected from populations
D. populating models of social processes
5. Indicators are the questions you actually ask when you want to measure an underlying construct or concept.
A. True
B. False
6. Someday, Dr. Welser hopes to be as famous as
A. Howard Hughes
B. Daffy Duck
C. Howard the Duck
D. Howie Becker
7. When people know they are being studied they sometimes give a different answer depending on how they think their answer will be evaluated. This general process is called ________ and often involves a ____________.
A. interactivity . . . . . slide towards acceptance
B. reactionary . . .. . biased shift
C. interaction . . . . . . social approval slide
D. reactivity . … . . slide towards acceptance
8. A valid measurement is said to be an accurate representation of the concept it is intended to measure.
A. True
B. False
9. A measure is reliable if it is consistent, even if it is off target.
A. True
B. False
10. Why do we sample?
A. Samples keep sociologists busy
B. For most questions, it is too much hassle and expense to ask everyone
C. To measure diversity in a population
D. To increase generalizability
11. Random samples are good for assessing range of variation for diverse populations with rare types
A. True
B. False
12. Probability sampling gives good estimates of central tendencies because of
A. the law of large numbers
B. the fact that sampling error is the difference between sample characteristics and population characteristics.
C. the true average
13. An important step in field research is to make the familiar strange.
A. True
B. False
14. Explain why people do field research.
15. Describe the key steps and procedures involved in taking good field notes.
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