When people must respond to a question from a fixed list of possible answers to a question, this
a. makes the findings more valid.
b. increases reliability.
c. is an open-ended question.
d. is a closed-ended question.
Question 2The perspective of _____ feminism has supported many legal changes to bring about greater equality for women in the United States.
a. liberal
b. socialist
c. radical
d. multiracial
Question 3If a sociologist wants to know how students feel about the cost of living in residence halls, the most appropriate research method to use would be _____.
a. an experiment
b. a survey
c. observation
d. searching university records
Question 4Feminist theorists have focused on the ways in which gender is created and reinforced through social interaction. This is an ethnomethodological perspective termed _____.
a. gender orientation
b. feminist interpretivism
c. institutionalized gender
d. doing gender
Question 5The return rate for a survey is
a. the percentage of questionnaires distributed that are completed and returned.
b. what the total costs of conducting the survey are.
c. the amount of good data that the researcher can take from each survey returned.
d. the number of surveys returned but not completed.
Question 6The feminist understanding of doing gender is a type of _____ perspective within sociology.
a. conflict
b. structural functionalist
c. symbolic interactionist
d. macrosociological
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