Social World (Problems And Solutions) MCQ Questions Answers

1. Questions included in a questionnaire or interview schedule to help explain answers to other important questions are called as Interpretive questions

2. ___ question that is asked of only a subset of survey respondents.

3. Presenting, as one’s own, the ideas or words of others for academic evaluation without proper acknowledgement is called ______.

4. Which of the following is an example of front matter in an applied research report?

5. Which of the following is NOT good, ethical practice when reporting on research?

6. Which of the following is an example of back matter in an applied research report?

7. Which is NOT a recommendation for a research poster presented in the chapter?

8. To be ethical, what should a researcher NOT do when reporting research results?

9. Which should not be included in the back matter of a report?

10. Front matter refers to ______.

11. Outlining the sections in an already written draft of a paper or report to improve its organization in the next draft is known as ______.

12. Qualitative reports are no different than quantitative reports.

13. It is well established that an academic paper or applied research report will go through several stages of revision before it is considered complete.

14. An applied research report must focus on answering a particular research question.

15. Applied research reports begin with an executive summary.

16. Applied research reports are written for a different audience from the professional social scientists and students who read academic journals.

17. Which of following is NOT a characteristic of qualitative historical research?

18. The method of agreement in historical and comparative research was developed by ______.

19. Demography as a field focuses on such issues as ______.

20. One way to increase the credibility of oral histories is to ______.

21. Historical methods typically focus on ______ while comparative methods examine ______.

22. Research that involves studying multiple cases (usually nations) at a single point in time is known as ______.

23. Research that involves studying a single case during a relatively short period of time or surrounding a single event is known as ______.

24. Content analysts create variables by counting occurrences of all the following EXCEPT ______.

25. How does one assess the reliability of codes in a content analysis?

26. Because historical and comparative research often uses secondary sources, the researcher doesn’t have to understand local and historical norms, values, and routine activities.

27. In a deterministic causal approach to historical research, several cases with different outcomes are considered to identify critical factors.

28. Research that compares data from one time period between two or more nations is called comparative historical research.

29. To compute the demographic bookkeeping equation, one needs to know the number of births and deaths in a population as well as the number of in-migrants and out-migrants.

30. Causal reasoning in quantitative historical and comparative research is nomothetic.

31. How often does the U.S. government conduct a full census of the population?

32. Data from the Chicago Police Department would likely come from ______.

33. The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series contains surveys from ______.

34. What is the greatest challenge researchers face when using secondary data?

35. Which of the following is FALSE about data from the ICPSR?

36. The General Social Survey is conducted by ______.

37. Secondary data sources ______.

38. Officials who serve citizens and have a high level of power and discretion are known as street-level bureaucrats.

39. Census counts remain unaffected by social and political pressures.

40. Subject confidentiality is a key concern when original records are analyzed.

41. Data quality is always a concern when using secondary data.

42. The U.S. decennial census of population also includes of a census of housing.

43. A researcher goes in to inspect a school program for children who are struggling to read, which is receiving a large amount of government funds. She wants to make sure there is improvement among these students or funding will be cut. What kind of analysis would she be conducting?

44. Individuals and groups who have some basis of concern with the program are called ______.

45. In order to start a new program, a service provider seeks to find out how much the program will cost per outcome desired. The service provider needs to find an investigator to conduct what kind of research?

46. When process evaluation is used to shape and refine the operations of the program that was evaluated, it is called ______.

47. An implementation assessment is another name for a/an ______.

48. Confidentiality is “particularly thorny” in research on social programs because ______.

49. Schutt suggests that qualitative interviewing can be most useful in evaluation research in terms of ______.

50. Eastern City proposes developing a community policing program to reduce crime in one neighborhood. The police department, in conjunction with the mayor’s office, held several meetings in which they discussed this proposal with neighborhood residents, business owners, and social organizations. In this example, the outcome of the program is intended to be ______.

51. If scientific causal criteria outweigh political needs in evaluation research, it is known as having what type of orientation ______.

52. Which law requires some type of evaluation on all government programs?

53. A type of evaluation research that attempts to determine the needs of some population that might be met with a social program is called a needs assessment.

54. Impact analysis typically uses qualitative methods.

55. Assessing needs, determining evaluability, and examining the process of a program service delivery have special ethical dimensions relative to other social research methods.

56. Evaluability assessments usually rely on qualitative methods.

57. The direct product of a program’s service delivery process is its outcome.

58. A mixed methods approach that primarily uses qualitative research with a secondary quantitative element would be represent as ______.

59. A philosophy that emphasizes the importance of taking action and learning from the outcomes to generate knowledge.

60. This design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs with the qualitative data as secondary to the quantitative method.

61. This occurs when the primary method is qualitative or quantitative but the researcher adds the other component only to gain additional insights.

62. The qualitative method is implemented first, followed by the quantitative method.

63. The quantitative method is implemented first, followed by the qualitative method.

64. The quantitative and qualitative methods are implemented at the same time.

65. Using a focus group or cognitive interviewing to refine a structure survey instrument is an example of how mixed methods strengthens ______.

66. The quantitative method is implemented at the same time as the qualitative method, but the quantitative method is given priority.

67. Mixed methodology was originally proposed in order to improve measurement validity.

68. An embedded mixed-method design uses qualitative and quantitative methods at the same time to analyze different aspects of a social phenomenon.

69. Mixed methods were very popular during the period of time known as the Paradigm wars, since mixed methodology was able to bridge the divide between positivists and interpretivists.

70. A quantitative researcher can implement an integrated design with little ethical or professional concerns.

71. Researchers may choose to use mixed methods when they want to explore new or understudied phenomena and then test findings from the qualitative research.

72. Research that uses photographs, films, or other images as text is known as ______.

73. Reflexivity refers to what in qualitative research analysis?

74. An ethnomethodologist differs from an ethnographer ______.

75. Which of the following is the least important for evaluating qualitative research?

76. After identifying concepts in qualitative data, the next step in qualitative analysis is what?

77. To reflexively analyze text, what must a researcher focus on?

78. Research questions in qualitative analysis tend to be ______.

79. Anthropologists call the intention of representing a setting under study in the terms of the researcher ______.

80. NVivo and HyperRESEARCH are statistical software packages.

81. Qualitative comparative analysis identifies multiple paths toward a specified outcome.

82. To read text interpretively, a researcher tries to construct her own interpretation of what the text means.

83. Qualitative comparative analysis involves immersion in two or more field sites for lengthy periods of time.

84. An emic focus involves representing a setting with the researcher’s terms.

85. A focus group that seeks to stimulate new and unexpected ideas should assemble what type of participants?

86. While conducting a participant observation study of forest protection among radical environmentalists, Researcher P starts to participate in illegal activities and become a passionate spokesperson for the group that was the case study in the research. Which is most likely about P’s research experience?

87. The traditional ethnography has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT ______.

88. The setting or group that a qualitative researcher treats as an integrated social unit that must be studied holistically and in its particularity is the ______.

89. Unlike participant observation, intensive interviewing ______.

90. Identity disclosure is of greatest ethical concern for which type of qualitative researcher?

91. The experience sampling method requires the use of what form of technology?

92. A member of a social setting who is a knowledgeable insider and is willing to share access and insight with a researcher is known as a ______.

93. Reactive effects occur in participant observation because ______.

94. Asynchronous interviewing provides an experience similar to an in-person interview.

95. Thick description provides a sense of what it is like to experience a field setting from the perspective of the researcher.

96. Reactive effects tend to decline as rapport builds among participant observers and their subjects.

97. Qualitative research usually pursues exploratory research questions.

98. A value or case that lies a great distance from the cluster of values or cases in a univariate distribution is known as a/an ______.

99. For the set of numbers: 4, 6, 7, 6, 2, 3, 4, 6, 2, 5 what is the mean?

100. To test for spuriousness, add which of the following to a bivariate crosstabs ______.