Sociology 5313 - Research Methods and Design » Fall 2021 » Quiz 3

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Question #1
Indicate the approach that best fits the term Reification
A.   critical 
B.   interpretative
C.   positivist
Question #2
Critical researchers put theory into practice and use the results to reformulate theories so that research encourages action in which people learn how to change the world. This idea is called
A.   praxis.
B.   relativism.
C.   reification.
D.   hermeneutics. 
Question #3
Indicate the approach that best fits the term False consciousness
A.   positivist
B.   interpretative
C.   critical 
Question #4
For the positivist approach to research, a theory looks like
A.   a descriptive travel book or guidebook to a different society.
B.   a logical system of laws, axioms, and propositions.
C.   a critique which claims that people are being misled.
D.   a novel or story of specific people and places. 
Question #5
What does “theory” look like for interpretative social science?
A.   a criticism of social conditions that claims that people are being mislead
B.   the everyday common sense thoughts of ordinary people 
C.   a program of political action and social change
D.   a rigorous, logical system of laws, axioms, and propositions
Question #6
Positivism seeks universal laws, and positivist researchers attempt to create law-like generalizations to explain events in the social world. This focus on laws in explanation is called
A.   determinism.
B.   nomothetic.
C.   verstehen.
D.   ideographic. 
Question #7
Indicate the approach that best fits the term Ideographic
A.   positivist
B.   interpretative
C.   critical 
Question #8
The interpretative social science approach is described as ideographic in its theory and method. What does this mean?
A.   It attempts to change the social world based on evidence that supports one’s ideological perspective. 
B.   It is the use of abstract ideas, laws, or propositions to deduce logically or infer specific hypotheses that researchers test against the facts of observable empirical reality.
C.   It tries to discover a system of causal laws that determines patterns of human behavior.
D.   It focuses on descriptions of specific people and events in a particular situation.
Question #9
Which approach states that the purpose of research is to study and understand the creation of social meaning?
A.   interpretative social science
B.   positivism
C.   critical social science 
Question #10
The positivist social scientist says that researchers should study
A.   how to create social change.
B.   meaningful social action. 
C.   causal laws of human nature
D.   dialectics of society.

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