Quiz 04| Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

When does a longitudinal study occur?
a) When a researcher uses routine data for large scale projects
b) When a descriptive study of a representative subset is needed for an extended duration
c) When an initial case study is returned to at a later point in time
d) When the statistical relationship between two sets of data is not clear

Question 2:

Who was Margaret Bourke-White?
a) The inventor of the longitudinal study
b) Robert Lynd’s most famous case study
c) The mayor of Muncie, Indiana
d) A photographer and photojournalist

Question 3:

What did Jennifer Hook’s study of men and unpaid domestic work reveal about gender relations?
a) That all men want to avoid housework
b) That in countries with lengthy parental leave, men’s participation in unpaid family labour increased
c) That national-level policies have an effect on maintaining or changing gender inequalities
d) That all women want to avoid unpaid family work

Question 4:

What is considered the strongest of all research designs in terms of producing robust and trustworthy results with internal validity?
a) Participant observation
b) Ethnomethodological design
c) Longitudinal comparison study
d) Experimental research design

Question 5:

What is a method commonly used by sociologists for collecting data?
a) Principal component analysis
b) Content analysis
c) Hierarchical storage management
d) Multidimensional data analysis

Question 6:

What do scholars call the patterned educational attainment of the children of new immigrants?
a) Segmented assimilation
b) Cultural assimilation
c) Educational assimilation
d) Access assimilation

Question 7:

What form of questions do interviewers usually pose in group discussions?
a) Closed-ended questions
b) Open-ended questions
c) Relational questions
d) Nominal questions

Question 8:

Paul Willis became immersed in the informal culture shared by the working-class youths he was studying. What is this strategy called?
a) Praxis intervention
b) People/crowd watching
c) Participant observation
d) Person-centred ethnography

Question 9:

What is a form of content analysis involving the analysis of texts?
a) Discourse analysis
b) Post-structuralist analysis
c) Hermeneutic analysis
d) Communication analysis

Question 10:

What is the main goal of Participatory Action Research?
a) Presenting value-neutral findings
b) Limiting social change through participant action
c) A centralized orientation on the part of the researchers
d) Effecting social change through participant action

True or False Questions

Question 11:

Photojournalism is considered a branch of sociology.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Stanley Milgram concluded that few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

True experiments are rarely conducted in sociology.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

A dependent variable is a variable that is caused or affected by an independent variable.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

The process of quantitative research generally begins with selecting the research site.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Abada and associates’ study showed that children of Filipino and black immigrants to Canada have the highest levels of educational attainment.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

In his now classic study of British working-class “lads” in “Hammertown,” Paul Willis contended that the “lads” developed a working-class culture that was distinctive from the middle-class one that the schools tried to instil.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Discourses are used to accomplish certain ends or to create certain effects.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Dorothy Smith developed institutional ethnography to give critical researchers a set of tools to explore how institutionally organized power and institutional processes shape and organize lived experiences.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

It is not necessary for research participants to give informed consent to be part of the research.
a) True
b) False

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