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