MCQS,TRUE FALSE AND FILL IN THE BLANKS textbook is “Social Research Methods; qualitative and…
MCQS,TRUE FALSE AND FILL IN THE BLANKS textbook is “Social Research Methods; qualitative and…
MCQS,TRUE FALSE AND FILL IN THE BLANKS
textbook is “Social Research Methods; qualitative and quantitative approaches”6th edition by W. Lawrence Neuman
These questions are from chapter 11. Nonreactive research and secondary analysis.
Lesson 111. An example of unobtrusive data collection is(are)a. an interview with college freshmen to determine why they selected a particular schoolb. a laboratory experiment designed to determine whether people really prefer Pepsior Cokec. a mailed survey designed to discern students’ attitudes toward a planned change inthe school’s calendar2. Which of the following modes of observation does NOT require the researcher tointrude to some degree on whatever he or she is studying?a. Experimentsb. Survey researchc. Complete participant observationd. Complete observer in field researche. All of these choices require the researcher to intrude3. Unobtrusive measures can reduce the problem (s) ofa. the researcher’s impact on the phenomenon being studiedb. invalid operationalization of conceptsc. unreliable measurementsd. corroboratione. the ecological fallacy4. Which of the following is (are) illustrative of unobtrusive observations?a. examining the floor tiles at a museum to determine which exhibits are the mostpopularb. examining the number of beer cans in the university garbage collections todetermine beer consumption patternsc. examining the wear on the tires of squad cars to determine the extent of policed. examining the radio dial settings of cars brought in for oil changes to determinethe popularity of radio stationse. all of these choices illustrate unobtrusive observations5. If we wanted to determine whether states that pass clean air legislation (no smoking inpublic areas) are more likely to enact laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets thanare states that had not passed clean air legislation, the unit of analysis would bea. the individual statesb. the individual act of legislationc. passage or nonpassage of the clean air legislationd. the clean air legislatione. states that passed clean air legislation
6. You are interested in doing a content analysis on the characteristics people seek in apartner by examining the personals section of three newspapers. Your unit of analysisis:a. the three newspapers.b. The characteristics desired in a partner.c. The individual adsd. The personals section of the papere. The person who wrote the ad7. Professor Perlman was interested in comparing two textbooks to determine whetherone used more sexist language than the other. Perlman counted the number of ties agender reference (ex: “he”, “she”, “chairman,” etc.) appeared in each book. Perlman wasdoinga. latent content codingb. manifest content codingc. quota samplingd. the ecological fallacye. base counting8. Which of the following levels of measurement(s) may be employed in contentanalysis?a. nominalb. ratioc. intervald. ordinale. all of these choices are correct9. In which of the following analyses is content analysis LEAST likely to be useful?a. themes in newspaper editorialsb. the wording of this examc. topics covered in class lecturesd. the theme of love as discussed in songe. dating patterns among high school seniors10. In comparison to coding the manifest content of communication, coding the latentcontenta. has a disadvantage in terms of validityb. has an advantage in terms of reliabilityc. is better designed for tapping the underlying meaning of communicationd. has an advantage in terms of specificitye. all of thee choices are true
11. The categories used in content analysis should bea. Mutually exclusiveb. Exhaustivec. Nominald. Mutually exclusive and exhaustivee. Mutually exclusive and nominal12. Content analysis can be done on newspaper materials and government documents butNOT on diaries and lettersa. Trueb. False13. As a mode of observation, content analysis is essentially a coding operationa. Trueb. False14. Coding in content analysis involvesa. conceptualization and operationalizationb. inductive methodsc. selecting a level of measurementd. deductive methodse. all of these choices are involved in coding in content analysis15. The weaknesses of content analysis include:a. a researcher cannot use it to study change over timeb. its use influences that which is being studidc. if you make a coding error, you cannot recode your datad. it requires special equipmente. none of these choices is a weakness of content analysis16. Standard probability sampling techniques should NOT be used in content analysisa. Trueb. False17. All content analysis results in countinga. Trueb. False18. Existing statistics can be useda. as the main data for social scientific inquiryb. to provide a historical context for researchc. to provide a conceptual context for researchd. as a supplemental source of data for social scientific inquirye. all of these choices are correct
19. Logical reasoning and replication are used to handle the problem of validity in theanalysis of existing statistics.a. Trueb. False20 A friend of yours is doing a term paper to compare the infant mortality rates in theUnited States, Japan, Bolivia, and Pakistan. You tell your friend that a good source tocheck isa. Common Causeb. the Demographic Yearbookc. the Statistical Abstract of the United Statesd. the Gallup polle. the Almanac21. Many existing statistics can be found on the internet.a. Trueb. False22. After examining the FBI Crime Reports for a 30=year period, Professor Hall claimedthat the incidence of rape has increased. After examining the same reports, ProfessorShine claimed that the reporting of rape, not the incidence of rape, has increased. Thisillustratesa. the problem of reliability in using existing statisticsb. the problem of validity in using existing statisticsc. the need to replicate existing statisticsd. the ecological fallacye. pretesting23. Professor Jenner was interested in using Census Bureau data to examine the trend inunemployment rates in the United States. However, Jenner’s definition of unemploymentdid not match the one used by the Census Bureau. Jenner was dealing with the issue ofa. reliabilityb. validityc. the ecological fallacyd. ideal typese. verstehen24. Only official government documents should be used in historical analysesa. Trueb. False25. According to Weber, an ideal type indicates the characteristics that the phenomenashould strive to attain.a. Trueb. False
26. Unobtrusive measures reduce the impact of the researcher on the phenomena beingstudied.a. Trueb. False1. Below is a list of measures on the French influence in New Orleans. Which of themeasures is NOT an Unobtrusive Measure?a. the wear on novels in the New Orleans Public Library written in Frenchb. walking down a street in New Orleans and noticing that most of the signs instores in a neighborhood are in French or French-Cajunc. a survey using a three-page questionnaire partly written in French that wasdistributed to residents of a neighborhoodd. a box of 300 letters written by people living in New Orleans to relatives livingin French speaking areas outside the state (e.g., Quebec. between 1980 and 1985(Page Ref: 321)Refer to the following paragraph to answer the questions below.Dr. Simpson conducted a content analysis of the New York Times newspaper between1980 and 2000. She first identified relevant articles involving government regulation ofbusiness. After finding 2,000 such articles, she systematically sampled articles with asampling interval of 5. She then coded each sampled article based on the subjectivemeaning it expressed, as pro- or anti-government regulation using a 1 to 10 scale (1 =very anti-regulation, 10 = very pro-regulation).2. In this study, Dr. Simpson used __________ to identify articles as pro- or antigovernment regulation.a. latent codingb. manifest codingc. generic codingd. intervention strategy coding(Page Ref: 326)3. How many articles did Dr. Simpson code?a. 200b. 400c. 1,000d. 4,000
