Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology explores the principles and practices of qualitative inquiry used to investigate social phenomena. This course introduces students to various methodologies such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography, case studies, and content analysis, emphasizing the collection and interpretation of non-numeric data. Students will learn to design research projects, develop research questions, conduct fieldwork, analyze and code qualitative data, and address ethical considerations. The course also examines the strengths and limitations of qualitative approaches, preparing students to critically evaluate qualitative research and apply these methods in sociological contexts.
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Readings for Sociology 7th Edition by Garth Massey
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Chapter 1: The Study of Sociology
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Q1) Best encourages us to approach statistics:
A) with the assumption that those who use them intend to deceive us
B) critically, by evaluating their quality and claims
C) casually, by never taking them too seriously
D) cynically-most statistics are both wrong and irrelevant, and cannot be trusted
7) Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities MICHAEL BURAWOY
Answer: B
Q2) Public sociology, according to Burawoy, is most often found in:
A) two-year community colleges
B) state colleges
C) elite colleges
D) PhD-granting research universities
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Culture and Society
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Q1) "Street" or a person's adoption of what Anderson calls the "orientation of the street" is a response to:
A) globalization and corporate control of popular images
B) racial, ethnic, and class prejudice
C) violence and very limited means of achievement in the person's environment
D) popular culture's images of success and accomplishment, i.e. making it in America
Answer: C
Q2) As in other Asian countries, McDonald's in Hong Kong has often been:
A) protested and criticized by those who object to American influence in China
B) difficult to establish because the Chinese have their own fast food franchises that provide a great deal of competition
C) forced by popular demand to provide mostly Chinese dishes (noodles, rice, fish, soups) rather than the traditional hamburgers and fries
D) plagued by customers' cell phone and smartphone use, to the point of prohibiting these devices in restaurants
E) None of the above are true
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Growing up Social
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Q1) Lareau's essay focuses on:
A) poor children, often raised by a single parent or grandparent, who excel in school
B) the organization of children's time by parents of different social classes
C) persons who excel in sports, entertainment, business, the arts, and scholarship
D) community policing and ways of building trust and cooperation between the police and high- crime neighborhoods
Answer: B
Q2) The women in Montemurro's study recognize their behavior as:
A) elitist
B) gender-bending, i.e. crossing the line between genders
C) deviant
D) socially constructed
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction and Identity
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Q1) Goffman's discussion is relevant only for situations in which a person is:
A) interacting (communicating) with another person or several persons
B) being interviewed, as for a job
C) an American or Western European. His argument is very ethnocentric and culturally specific.
D) educated enough to understand social theories and paradigms
Q2) The "rule" that most U.S. states used to determine who was "non-white" was the:
A) "visibly black" rule. A special panel of citizens determined if people were white or non-white depending on their visual perception of them
B) "one-drop" rule. If a person had any known African American ancestor, he or she was considered to be black
C) "quartaroon" rule. If a person had one African American grandparent, he or she was considered to be black
D) "social consensus" rule. If a person's acquaintances believed the person to be non-white, then he or she was considered non-white
E) "pencil rule." If a pencil inserted into a person's hair fell out, he or she was considered to be white.
22) Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? MARY WATERS
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Chapter 5: Social Inequality and Labor
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Q1) Ehrenreich found that the want ads in the newspaper were:
A) filled with opportunities for people with job experience and education, but few for unskilled people like herself
B) not a good indicator of jobs that were actually available
C) the best place to go in search of a job-they were usually timely and accurate
D) highly deceptive, often attracting people to illegal activities or offering a pathway to illegal work
Q2) What two approaches does Wilson use in order to understand the problems of inner-city black males?
A) examination of cultural and social structural factors
B) post-industrial theory and feminist theory
C) organizational rationality and political economy
D) historical path-dependency (events could not have unfolded otherwise) and social psychology
Q3) When Marx and Engels looked at societies in the past and present, they saw:
A) war and perpetual fighting between armies
B) a machine that could produce abundance
C) an organism of interdependent parts, all working for a common goal
D) social divisions between the powerful and those who served the powerful
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Chapter 6: Social Control and Organizational Power
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Q1) One conclusion Rhodes reaches in her essay is that there is likely to be a greater proportion of mentally ill inmates in:
A) the general prison population
B) solitary confinement
C) minimum security prisons
D) halfway houses that have the fewest restrictions on inmates' comings and goings
Q2) According to Feagin and Parker, Los Angeles's urban development, especially its urban sprawl:
A) emphasizes population density, concentrating people around commercial districts
B) grew as a consequence of "water politics" that favored suburban homeowners
C) began with the extension of mass transit trolley and rail routes spreading outward from the central city
D) was inevitable, given the topography of the area-hilly and difficult to develop with a typical grid pattern
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Chapter 7: Social Institutions
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Q1) Ritzer thinks the most valid criticisms of the McDonald's system are ones that:
A) compare the past-slower, more humane, less materialistic-to the present
B) focus on economic exploitation of workers and government subsidies to major corporations
C) recognize how "copycat" companies use the research and developmental advances of successful companies, but don't pay for it
D) describe the way people's potential is limited by "overly rationalized" organizations
E) point to government policies that make unhealthy food cheap and healthy food expensive
Q2) The McDonald's system is built on the idea that:
A) anything we can do ourselves can be done better by a large corporation
B) we are social animals who seek others' company rather than staying (isolated) at home
C) advertising makes us see the world the way we want it to be, not the way it really is D) we have too little time, money, or desire to be surprised or challenged
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Chapter 8: Social Change
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Q1) McKibbin concludes that:
A) wealthy countries such as the U.S. may soon produce more of their food the way Cuba does, with urban gardens and other practices of sustainable agriculture
B) hunger in Cuba is the most likely reason that the Castro regime will soon be overthrown
C) overeating and a heavy diet of fast food is less of a problem than most doctors and nutritionists think
D) genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the best way to solve the world's hunger problem, despite objections by environmentalists and organic food activists
Q2) Obama wrote, "A More Perfect Union" when:
A) he was running for the office of president of the United States
B) he returned to Chicago after getting a law degree at Harvard
C) he was in high school in Hawaii
D) he was writing his first book, Dreams from My Father; it is an excerpt from that book
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