- If an event cannot take place, probability will be: 0
- Respondent is the term used in: Kinship studies
- The root-mean square deviation is also called: Standard deviation
- Objectives of research studies depend upon: The goal to be attained
- The final result of a study will be more accurate if the sample drawn is: Representative to the population
- While taking deviations the signs are ignored in: Mean deviation
- Fisher’s ideal index is: Geometric mean of Laspeyre’s and Paasche’s index
- What is true about objectivity: In an experimental group dynamic situation and new social norms arise: When individuals are faced with ambiguous situations
- Thurston scale is a type of: Attitude scale
- What is positivism: Positivism is a philosophical position on how we go about obtaining knowledge
- The . . . . . . . . method consists in the collection of data concerning the living, the working conditions of people in a given area with a view to formulate practical social measures for their betterment and welfare: Social survey
- The research antagonistic to ex-post tacto research is: Experimental studies
- Which types of sampling method is ideally suited, where there is no knowledge about population: Snowball sampling method
- The standard deviation of sampling distribution is called: Standard error
- Which of the following type of research hypothesis is a pre-requisites: Experimental study
- Statistical observations arranged in chronological order is called: Time services
- Objectivity means: Lack of personal values and bias in one’s work
- Which one of the following methods is known as probability sampling: A sample selected by Tippets numbers from the given totality
- The nature of relationship is studied through: Regression
- If median 4400, MD = 5714 co-efficient of mean deviation is: 0.054
- A set of techniques used to measure attractions and repulsions during inter-personal relations in quantitative and diagrammatic terms is known as: Sociometry
- The nature of relationship is studied through: Regression
- Who is known to have used ‘participant observation’ methods in study of American society: W. F. Whyte
- Who found an epistemological break between Marx’s early philosophical work and his later scientific theories and knowledge: L. Althusser
- Which of the correct sequence of steps involved in sociological investigation: Formulation of problem, Planning research design, Field work, Analysing data, drawing conclusion
- Why does Stacey argue against the idea of a feminist ethnography: Because she thinks that the fieldwork relationship is inherently unequal
- A logical sentence is called: Proposition
- If by obtaining two curves one for X variable and other for Y variable we see the both curves moving in the same direction, it indicates: Positive correlation
- The points of intersection of the ‘less than’ and the ‘more than’ ogives correspond to: Median
- According to Weber, there is no absolutely of culture: Objective analysis
- If wishes or values do not consciously or unconsciously distort reporter’s description of the situation, then the report is: Objective
- Hypothesis cannot be stated in: General terms
- Social research is: The logical arrangement of facts which mutually explained each other
- The French social philosopher who gave stress on scientific theories and observation was: A. Comte
- By which of the following means objective facts cannot be secured or established by a researcher: From material collected on the basis of oath and affirmation
- Field study is a method of research in which the observations are taken in the: Natural set up
- Who has developed a variation of ‘life history’ approach called ‘literary folklorist’: Dolby-Stahl