👥Sociology MCQs
Sociology MCQs
486 MCQs151
An association between two variables which is in fact caused by other factor(s)is called a______________?
Amultiple regression
Bcausal mechanism
Cspurious correlation
Dmultinomial distribution
152
One of the difficulties in open rationalizing concepts like social class is that____________?
Adefinitions and indicators can vary making valid comparisons problematic
Bthere are no reliable indicators of such widely contested ideas
Cit takes all the fun out of armchair theorizing
Dit has little use for applied empirical research about the topic
153
Which of the following is a personal document with closed access ?
Agovernment white paper
Bconfidential medical records
Chousehold account book
Dthe shares register of a business
154
One of the ethical problems with covert participant observation is______________?
Anot being able to write comprehensive field notes or record conversations
Bdeceiving the respondents as to the reason for your presence
Cobserving people outside of their natural setting
Dsubjecting the participants to physical harm
155
Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?
Ait concentrates too much on kinship ties
Bthe government should be raising benefit levels
Cin modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
Dit is wrong to make comparisons between countries
156
Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?
Aprimary/secondary
Bweak/strong
Cgeneral/specific
Dold/new
157
Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004 ?
Astayed the same around 1.5 billion people
Brose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
Cfell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
Drose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion
158
Which of the following would be an example of a random sample? A researcher_____________?
Aadministers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office
Bexamines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city’s telephone book
Cstudies the attitudes of Democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city’s list of registered Democrats
DNone of the above
159
The study of the interracial friendships conducted by the Tom Smith who heads up the General Social Survey is an example of____________?
Aobservation research
Ba survey
Ccontent analysis
Dan experiment
160
In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a (n) ?
Acorrelation
Bindependent variable
Cdependent variable
Dsample