Sociology MCQs

1. The concepts of age, sex and race are (Points : 1)      Ascribed statuses      Achieved statuses      Demographic variables      Achieved statuses and Demographic variables

2. Applied research is a designed for a particular use, such as evaluating a program. (Points : 1)      True       False

3. Sociologists focus on _____________ behavior (Points : 1)      Individual      Group      Adolescent      Animal

4. A city councilman broke the law by taking money from a company who was then awarded a city contract, and was then forced to resign. Which term best explains his behavior? (Points : 1)      Role strain      Role confusion      Role conflict      Folkway

5. Someone calls you on the phone and asks you who you are going to vote for. This is what kind of research? (Points : 1)      Interview      Poll      Experiment      Field research

6. Which type of research starts by collecting data and analyzing it to look for patterns? (Points : 1)      Inductive      Deductive

7. What is the term used by sociologists to explain how they will measure a variable? (Points : 1)      Interactionism      Deduction      Induction      Operationalization

8. What kind of survey question is the following: “Do you like summer and going to the beach and hiking in the mountains?” (Points : 1)      A double-barreled question that is hard to answer      A clearly easy to answer question      A quantitative question      A nonparametric question

9. Sociologists strive to avoid being biased when selecting a topic of analyzing data so that one can let the facts speak for themselves. This principle is known as (Points : 1)      Value free sociology      Subjectivity      Deduction      Interactionism

10. You occupy a _____________ and you play a ____________. (Points : 1)      Status, role      Role, status      Role, role      Status, status