Lesson 02A.1.1
02A.1.1 Positivism Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 5
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The 20 questions
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Which methodological approach seeks to uncover objective social facts and cause-and-effect patterns?
- Realism
- Postmodernism
- Interpretivism
- Positivism
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What type of data do positivist sociologists typically favour for discovering broad social trends?
- Historical texts
- Quantitative data
- Personal diaries
- Qualitative data
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Which core principle requires researchers to keep their personal beliefs separate from data collection?
- Subjectivity
- Researcher imposition
- Verstehen
- Value freedom
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What term describes the positivist ideal of conducting research without personal bias or emotional involvement?
- Empathy
- Objectivity
- Rapport
- Reflexivity
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Which research paradigm views human behaviour as driven by external social forces rather than internal meanings?
- Positivism
- Phenomenology
- Interactionism
- Action theory
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When a positivist researcher measures variables across a whole population to establish general laws, what are they studying?
- Lived experiences
- Individual meanings
- Hidden motives
- Social trends
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Which research method is most commonly associated with positivist attempts to establish reliability?
- Structured questionnaires
- Focus groups
- Participant observation
- Unstructured interviews
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Why do positivists value experimental designs in sociological research?
- Total subjectivity
- High rapport
- High control
- Deep Verstehen
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What does a high degree of standardisation in positivist research primarily help to ensure?
- Validity
- Reliability
- Verstehen
- Rapport
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If a questionnaire is easily repeated by different researchers to check results, what quality does it possess?
- Empathy
- Reliability
- Validity
- Subjectivity
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Which sampling technique gives every single member of the target population an equal chance of selection?
- Opportunity sampling
- Quota sampling
- Random sampling
- Snowball sampling
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What sampling method involves selecting every nth person from a complete list of the research population?
- Cluster sampling
- Systematic sampling
- Random sampling
- Stratified sampling
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Which sampling technique divides the population into specific sub-groups before drawing a proportional sample?
- Systematic sampling
- Snowball sampling
- Stratified sampling
- Random sampling
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What practical factor is demonstrated when a researcher creates a sampling frame from an electoral register?
- Informed consent
- Access to data
- Theoretical bias
- Value freedom
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Which theoretical perspective argues that quantitative methods fail to capture the true meaning of social action?
- Positivism
- Functionalism
- Interpretivism
- Marxism
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What methodological issue occurs when a researcher's own values or questions accidentally direct the participant's answers?
- Objectivity
- Triangulation
- Researcher imposition
- Value freedom
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Which concept refers to the ability to generalise research findings from a small group to the wider population?
- Rapport
- Verstehen
- Generalisability
- Validity
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What term describes data gathered first-hand by the sociologist themselves for a specific project?
- Official statistics
- Primary data
- Secondary data
- Historical archives
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Which process involves turning abstract sociological concepts into measurable indicators for research?
- Sampling
- Operationalisation
- Triangulation
- Pilot studies
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Why might a positivist researcher conduct a small-scale pilot study before starting their main survey?
- Increase rapport
- Gain Verstehen
- Ensure subjectivity
- Identify flaws
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