Soc Final Practice Quiz #15

One of the first uses of official records as data in sociology was done by ____________________________.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Max Weber

Karl Marx

Emile Durkheim

Dixon, et al classify the General Social Survey (GSS) as what type of secondary data?

Demography relies almost exclusively on _________________________________________.

You do a study that finds that European countries with a large Protestant population have significantly higher suicide rates than European countries with a large Catholic population. It would be an ecological fallacy to conclude that...

European culture endorses suicide.

suicide rates influence religious ideology.

Protestants are more likely to commit suicide than Catholics.

religious ideology influences suicide rates.

The most common units of analysis in content analysis are individual people.

True

False

In Linder's research on how the vantage point of journalists affects the types of stories they write, the coding unit was...

In content analysis, we operationalize our variables when we...

select out sampling unit.

carry out our analysis.

develop a coding scheme.

select our coding unit.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, and Max Weber all used...

When we study cases with the same outcome to "search for causally relevant commonalities" (Ragin 2006, 638), we are...

using comparative historical methods.

doing secondary data analysis.

selecting on the dependent variable.

doing content analysis.

unable to build theory.

According to the textbook, a _________________ can be used to help develop causal explanations in comparative historical analysis.

selection on the dependent variable

content analysis

Statistical analysis

Truth table

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