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Scientifically speaking, a "theory" can be equated as being an educated hunch or guess about how various aspects of the physical world are related. |
FALSE |
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People's pupil (eye) dilation has sometimes been used as an "unobtrusive measure" in the social sciences. |
TRUE |
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The Current Population Survey (CPS) is conducted once every ten years. |
FALSE |
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The Current Population Surveys are not very useful for describing local and regional populations. |
TRUE |
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"Paradigm shift" is the term used in science (including sociology) when researchers change from one type of methodology (such as surveys) to another (such as lab experiments). |
FALSE |
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Questions that are theological or supernatural belong to the realm of science just as much as any other type of question. |
FALSE |
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Scientists, including social scientists, seek to build models of how things work because we can't really see or test reality directly. |
True. |
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Sociology is a ________. |
Neither of the above (not a hard or soft science) |
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Data for the Current Population Survey are collected by ________. |
Both "a" (face-to-face inquiry) and "b" (telephones) above |
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How often does the U. S. Government conduct a major, national level Census? |
Every ten years. |
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Which kind of experiment is one in which the researchers know the identity of subjects, but have taken great care not to reveal subjects' individual identities? |
A confidential study |
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The study of early industrialization, and attendant social problems in urban areas, is closely associated with ________. |
the rise of the "Chicago School of Sociology." |
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Clifford Shaw's book (part of the Chicago School), entitled The Jack-Roller, is a study of ________. |
muggers. |
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What kind of studies are concerned with the age and sex distribution of the population - which means they must also study births, deaths, and migration patterns? |
Demographic studies |
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NORC carries out ________. |
opinion polls. |
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"Lifeboat" was an example of ________. |
a simulation. |
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The Tuskegee Experiment was about ________. |
treatment of syphilis. ( |
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A common problem of experimental studies is that merely by paying attention to the subjects in an experiment the researchers may be influencing the phenomenon they are trying to study. This is known as ________. |
the Hawthorne effect. |
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The study that examined the hypothesis that "the greater the ease of access to welfare payments, the greater will be the birth rate among poor teenagers" is an example given in the chapter of ________. |
a field experiment |
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When the study that examined the hypothesis that "the greater the ease of access to welfare payments, the greater will be the birth rate among poor teenagers" was actually carried out, the researchers found that the hypothesis was ________. |
unsupported |
