MCQ on Research Methodology 

with answer key - PART -3

1. A sensitizing concept is one that:

  A) Helps the researcher to investigate sensitive issues  
B) Allows the researcher to measure very small changes in a variable
C) Provides general guidance for more flexible research
D) Imposes a predetermined theoretical model on the social world

... Answer is : C) Provides general guidance for more flexible research

2. Respondent validation is the process by which:

A) The problem of low response rates to a survey can be overcome
B) Participants collaborate with the researcher to design the research
C) The validity of an interview schedule can be measured
D) Researchers ask their participants to comment on an account of the findings

... Answer is : D) Researchers ask their participants to comment on an account of the findings

3. Which of the following is not a contrast between quantitative and qualitative research?

A) Generalization vs. contextual understanding
B) Interpretivist vs. feminist
C) Distance vs. proximity of researcher to participants
D) Hard, reliable data vs. rich, deep data

... Answer is : B) Interpretivist vs. feminist

4. Why has qualitative research been seen to have an affinity with feminism?

A) It allows the researcher to control variables and suppress women's voices
B) It claims to be value free and non-political
C) It has always been carried out by female sociologists
D) It allows women's voices to be heard, rather than objectifying and exploiting them

... Answer is : D) It allows women's voices to be heard, rather than objectifying and exploiting them

5. Probability sampling is rarely used in qualitative research because:

A) It is often not feasible
B) Qualitative researchers are not trained in statistics
C) Research Questions are more important than sampling
D) It is very old-fashioned

... Answer is : A) It is often not feasible

6. The two levels of sampling used by Savage et al. (2005) for the Manchester study were:.

A) Convenience and snowball
B) Contexts and participants
C) Random and purposive
D) Statistical and non-statistical

... Answer is : B) Contexts and participants

7. Which of the following is not a type of purposive sampling?

A) Deviant case sampling
B) Theoretical sampling
C) Snowball sampling
D) Probability sampling

... Answer is : D) Probability sampling

8. What is involved in "purposive sampling" for grounded theory?

A) Deciding on a sampling strategy early on and pursuing it relentlessly
B) Using a random numbers table to select a representative sample of people
C) Sampling units of time rather than individual persons
D) Strategically selecting respondents who are likely to provide relevant data

... Answer is : D) Strategically selecting respondents who are likely to provide relevant data

9. What is meant by the term "theoretical saturation"?

A) The point at which a concept is so well developed that no further data collection is necessary
B) The problem of having used too many theories in one's data analysis
C) d) A state of frustration caused by having used every possible statistical test without finding any significant results
D) Deciding on a theory and then testing it repeatedly

... Answer is : A) The point at which a concept is so well developed that no further data collection is necessary

10. Generic purposive sampling can be characterized as being:

A) Fixed and ad-hoc
B) Contingent and ad infinitum
C) Fixed and a priori
D) Contingent and post-hoc

... Answer is : C) Fixed and a priori