How is the social world best described?
Correct answer B. Changing
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Which of these is not listed among the major research designs?
Correct answer A. Ethnography
Which process turns raw data into numbers so they can be analysed further?
Correct answer E. Coding
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When did sociology emerge as a field of study?
Correct answer A. In the early 19th century
Which of these was not listed among the four conditions needed before claiming that an independent variable caused a change in the dependent variable?
Correct answer A. Internal consistency
Who coined the term sociology?
Correct answer B. Auguste Comte
Which research method is popular because it is relatively cheap and suits the study of large numbers of people?
Correct answer A. Surveys
What was the final stage in Comte’s scheme of social development?
Correct answer A. Scientific stage
Why do closed-ended questions increase the return rate of a questionnaire?
Correct answer B. They are quick and easy to complete
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What disparaging label is often applied to the social sciences?
Correct answer C. Soft sciences
A survey on education level offers only the categories some high school, high school and university. Which key rule for closed-ended questionnaire items does this break?
Correct answer E. Exhaustive
According to Comte, what was the first stage of human thought?
Correct answer A. Theological
What is the main advantage of interviews?
Correct answer B. The response rate is high
Who introduced sociology as an academic discipline?
Correct answer D. Auguste Comte
Gathering information about crime control from several countries is a good example of which approach?
Correct answer E. Comparative approach
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Which of these writers produced the first book with the word sociology in its title?
Correct answer B. Herbert Spencer
What must a researcher be for field research to succeed?
Correct answer B. Creative
A field researcher who is open about doing research is probably taking which role?
Correct answer C. Participant-as-observer
Who created the term sociology and is generally regarded as its founder?
Correct answer D. Auguste Comte
Laud Humphreys’s study Tearoom Trade (1970) is an example of which method?
Correct answer A. Participant observation