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End of Year Sociology Quiz
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Which identity is MOST associated with the concept of
“hybrid identities”
?
Class
Age
Disability
Ethnicity
2
What is a hypothesis?
A proven fact
A testable statement
A guess
An opinion
3
Which agent of socialisation is usually classified as
secondary
?
Siblings
Birth order
Mass media
Parents
4
What is a matrifocal family?
Family ruled by men
Extended family
Family centred around a mother
Reconstituted family
5
What is a beanpole family?
A multi-generational family with few children
A family with many children
A family with step-siblings
A small nuclear family
6
What is a case study?
Study of one individual or group in depth
Review of literature
Random sampling
Large-scale survey
7
20. What is one reason for the increase in lone-parent families?
Decrease in women’s rights
Increase in church attendance
.Increase in arranged marriage
Rising divorce rates
8
What is operationalisation?
Running the experim
Breaking concepts down into measurable parts
Controlling a sample
Using a computer
9
According to Parsons, what are the two key functions of the family?
Reproduction and education
Love and companionship
Primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities
Economic support and discipline
10
Who believed that childhood is socially constructed and varies across cultures?
Postman
Aries
Althusser
Palmer
11
What is the “dual burden”?
Women doing paid work and housework
A. Having two jobs
Having two families
Men taking on childcare
12
Norms
are best defined as…
Government law
Personal ambitions
Strongly held beliefs
Expected patterns of behaviour
13
What do Marxists believe is the main function of the family?
To maintain capitalism
To provide emotional support
To teach religion
To raise children
14
What is meant by the term "patriarchy"?
Male dominance in society and the family
A society dominated by women
A single-parent household
Equal roles in the family
15
Which of these is a secondary source?
An observation
A focus group
B. A government report
An interview
16
Which policy supports traditional nuclear families?
Equal pay act
Marriage tax allowance
Divorce reform act
Free childcare
17
What does reliability mean in research?
The sample
The results can be repeated and get the same outcome
The data is truthful
The study uses primary data
18
What is covert observation?
Survey with a cover letter
Group interview
Watching people without them knowing
Lab experiment
19
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data
Qualitative is words, quantitative is numbers
There is no difference
One is online, one is not
One is more reliable
20
What is an ethical issue in research?
Using a hypothesis
Informed consent
Time limits
Using large samples
21
What is a pilot study?
A literature review
A small-scale test before the main research
A group interview
The first full version of a study
22
What is meant by the “child-centred” family?
Families with no parental authority
Families that are run by children
Families that focus on the needs of children
Families that only have one child
23
What is an advantage of structured interviews?
Flexible questions
Easy to compare responses
More valid responses
High dropout rate
24
What is secularisation?
Decline of religion in society
Legalisation of marriage
Increase in religious influence
Rise of religious families
25
Which feminist sociologist researched gender roles in the family and coined the terms
manipulation
and
canalisation
?
Oakley
Ansley
Connell
Durkheim
26
Which type of family is most associated with industrial societies?
Extended family
Blended family
Single parent family
Nuclear family
27
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Researchers go native
People behave differently when being observed
Participants lie on surveys
Data is misinterpreted
28
What is the main problem with postal questionnaires?
Difficult to analyse
Too many responses
Low response rate
Too expensive
29
According to interactionists, social order is maintained mainly through…
Religious law
Force
Negotiated meanings
Economic control
30
18. What has led to a rise in single-person households?
Lower divorce rates
Decrease in housing
More family values
Greater individualism
31
In sociology, what is meant by
positivism
?
An emotional response to data
A religious belief system
A scientific approach emphasizing observable facts
A belief in negative outcomes
32
What is the main purpose of sociological research
To spread personal opinions
To create laws like in physics
To invent new laws
To understand human behaviour and society
33
What is the feminist criticism of the nuclear family?
It encourages independence
It is outdated
It causes divorce
It oppresses women
34
What is a reconstituted family?
Single parent family
A family that includes step-siblings or step-parents
A nuclear family with adopted children
Childless couple
35
Who developed the concept of the ‘symmetrical family
Willmott and Young
Oakley
Marx
Parsons
36
Which method is most associated with interpretivism?
Experiments
Official statistics
Questionnaires
Unstructured interviews
37
15. Which perspective sees the family as a “unit of consumption”?
Marxist
Functionalist
New Right
Feminist
38
Which method is best for studying sensitive topics?
Group interview
Unstructured interview
. Postal survey
Structured questionnaire
39
What is a longitudinal study?
Focused on recent events
Carried out over a long period of time
Done across different countries
Done with a large sample
40
What is the ‘triple shift’ according to Duncombe and Marsden?
Raising three children
Working 3 jobs
Paid work, housework, and emotional work
Rotating
41
What is a sample?
A summary
A small group selected from a population
A theory
A type of data
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What is a nuclear family?
A family with multiple generations living together
A blended family
A married couple and their dependent children
A single-parent family
43
Who said individuals present a
“dramaturgical”
self in social interactions?
Weber
Cooley
Goffman
Erving Goffman
44
What is
primary socialisation
?
Adopting online trends
Learning new skills at work
Early learning within the family
Formal education
45
The
nature vs nurture
debate explores…
Evolutionary theory only
How genes affect IQ only
B) Relative influence of biology and culture
Inheritance of wealth
46
What is primary data?
Second-hand data
Data collected first-hand by the researcher
Published books
Government statistics
47
Which sociologist studied conjugal roles in the family?
Becker
B. Young and Willmott
Murdock
Zaretsky
48
What is meant by validity?
Whether data is recent
Whether data is true and accurate
Whether data is from a large sample
Whether data is consistent
49
Which sociologist introduced the concept of the
looking-glass self
?
Pierre Bourdieu
C) Karl Marx
George Mead
Charles Cooley
50
What is triangulation?
Using three researchers
Using three methods to cross-check data
Three-stage testing
A triangular sample
51
Who is most associated with the idea of the ‘warm bath theory’?
A.
Parsons
Zaretsky
Oakley
Engels
