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Higher Education

Social Research Methods, Fourth Canadian Edition: Chapter 01

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Definition
b) Theory
c) Description
d) Relational statement

Question 2:


a) a deductive methodology
b) an inductive methodology
c) a grounded theory approach
d) all of the above

Question 3:


a) science must be “value-laden”
b) knowledge can be arrived at only through deduction
c) there is no distinction between scientific statements and normative statements
d) only phenomena confirmed by the senses can be accepted as knowledge

Question 4:


a) observations and findings
b) theory and research
c) qualitative and quantitative research
d) “hard” science and social science

Question 5:


a) present the society as a system of economic actors
b) gather facts that provide the basis for generalizations or laws
c) interpret social world from the point of view of actors
d) test theories

Question 6:


a) deductive
b) inductive
c) scientific
d) overview phenomenology

Question 7:


a) how people interpret and respond to their environment
b) the social constructs
c) the subjective meanings of intersubjective activity
d) a particular social phenomenon

Question 8:


a) Symbolic interactionism
b) Interpretivism
c) Participatory action research
d) Functionalism

Question 9:


a) objectivist
b) constructionist
c) interpretivist
d) positivist

Question 10:


a) whether knowledge of social reality is possible
b) whether social reality is constructed
c) whether scientific evidence is accurate
d) whether rationalized domination takes place in organizations

Question 11:


a) relies on numbers and statistics
b) views society as an external, objective reality
c) takes a predominantly inductive approach to theory and research
d) takes a predominantly deductive approach to theory and research

Question 12:


a) never affect research
b) always have a significant negative effect on research
c) may be negated by self-reflection and reporting early in research process
d) always have a significant positive effect on research

Question 13:


a) are concerned with how their organization is represented and influenced by investigation
b) assist with getting research subjects to assist the research
c) control publication restrictions
d) control access to funding

Question 14:


a) the research question being investigated
b) the preferred methodology
c) the number of research subjects
d) the level of access the researcher has to data

Question 15:


a) a strong hypothesis
b) a clear research question
c) a broad statement of the epistemological position of the researcher
d) a valid conclusion

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False

Question 22:


a) True
b) False

Question 23:


a) True
b) False

Question 24:


a) True
b) False

Question 25:


a) True
b) False

Question 26:


a) True
b) False

Question 27:


a) True
b) False

Question 28:


a) True
b) False

Question 29:


a) True
b) False

Question 30:


a) True
b) False

Question 31:


a) True
b) False