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Question 1449

Question MCQ▾

Quantitative social researchers rarely claim to have established causality because:

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

They do not believe that this is an appropriate goal to be striving for

b.

They keep forgetting which of the variables they have manipulated

c.

They tend to use cross-sectional designs, which produce only correlations

d.

They are more concerned with publishing the results of their reliability tests

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Question 1450

Question MCQ▾

In an experimental design, the dependent variable is:

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

A measure of the extent to which personal values affect research

b.

The one that is not manipulated and in which any changes are observed

c.

An ambiguous concept whose meaning depends on how it is defined

d.

The one that is manipulated in order to observe any effects on the other

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Question 1451

Question MCQ▾

What is a ‘grand theory’ ?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

An intermediate level explanation of observed regularities

b.

One that is highly abstract and makes broad generalizations about the social world

c.

One that was proposed by one of the major theorists in the sociological tradition

d.

A particularly satisfactory theory that makes the researchers feels happy

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