B A SOCIOLOGY 
                                                    IV SEMESTER 
                                                   (2019 Admission) 
                                              CORE COURSE (SGY4B05)  
                                      INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL RESEARCH 
                                          MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 
                   1.  Pure research is also known as ……………………. 
                      A) Formulative research                    B)  Action research    
                      C) Fundamental research                    D) Diagnostic study   
                   2. The first and most significant step in the research process is to formulate a …………..? 
                      A) Hypothesis                              B) Research objectives               
                      B)   Concepts                              D) Research problem 
                   3.  Observation method helps you...............  
                      A) To studying perspectives and viewpoints  
                      B)  To studying what is happening now  
                      C)  To studying historical incidents or activities  
                      D) None of the above 
                   4. Who coined the term ‘Thick description’? 
                      A) Ferdinand Tonnies                       B) Clifford Geertz            
                      C) Louis Worth                             D) Howard Winant  
                   5. Which of the following is an advantage of using a convenience sampling? 
                      A)  It is  cheapest and most straightforward process 
                      B)   It does not necessitate a population list 
                      C)   It does not necessitate any statistical knowledge     
                      D)  All of the above  
                  6. Which of the sampling technique is most appropriate when the population is dispersed    
                     over a large geographic area and no sampling frame or list is available? 
                      A) Multi-stage sampling                    B) Area sampling             
                      C) Cluster sampling                        D) Systematic random sampling  
                  7. Who defined “systematic effort to gain new knowledge we call research”? 
                      A) Martin Albrow                           B) Eric Anderson      
                      C) L.V. Redman and A.V.H. Morry            D) Barry Barnes       
                  8. The sample survey and experimental method are the most typical examples of    
                       …………….? 
                      A) Quantitative research                   B) Qualitative research             
                      C) Historical research                     D) case study 
                  9. Blue print of a research process is known as ………………….? 
                      A) Research Draft                           B) Analytical layout        
                      C) Abstract                                D) Research design 
                10. …………………..as a tentative statement about something 
                      A) Hypothesis                              B) Variable           
                      C) Concept                                 D) Data  
                11. The effectiveness of an experimental variable is examined by comparing it with another 
                    variable, known as ………………..? 
                      A) Confounding variable                    B) Ordinal variable 
                      C) Controlled variable                     D) Categorical variable 
                 12. Which of these is not a method of data collection 
                          A) Observation                                    B)    social survey       
                          C) Interview Schedule                             D) ethnography 
                 13. Who defined “an interview involves an interviewer reading questions to respondents and 
                 recording their answers”? 
                         A) Monette                                         B) John Porter            
                          C) John Scott                                     D) W P Thompson  
                 14. Which of the following should a researcher careful for when preparing a questionnaire?  
                          A) Double barreled questions                      B) Complex Questions              
                          C) Question sequencing                            D) all of the above 
                 15. ……………………………. is a method of selecting a sample by subdividing it into a 
                 homogeneous class from population. 
                        A) Simple random sampling                           B) Stratified sampling                    
                        C) Area sampling                                    D) Cluster sampling  
                 16. Which of following is the systematic process of arranging of keywords to enable users to     
                       locate   items   in   a   document? 
                     A) In-text citation                                    B) Endnotes               
                     C) Bibliography                                        D) Indexing 
                 17. Which of the following is a plagiarism detecting software?  
                    A) Zotero                                               B) URKUND                 
                    C) Mendley                                              D) EndNote 
                 18. Ethnographic research mainly used in ……………………… 
                  A) Qualitative research                          B) Quantitative research      
                  C) Survey                                        D) None of the above  
               19. The task of preparing the research project plan, is known as ……………….? 
                  A) Content frame                                 B) Research design            
                  C) Research sketch                               D) Action outline  
               20. A concept which can take on different quantitative values is called 
                     A) Variable                                   B) Objective           
                    C) Observation                                 D) Simulation 
               21. The researcher can the type of research design mainly using to study ongoing or repetitive 
               methods to track specific people over long, it is called ………………?   
                   A) Exploratory Design                           B) Diagnostic Design          
                   C) Longitudinal studies                         D) Historical design  
               22. Who defined “hypothesis as a tentative statement about something, the validity of which 
               is usually unknown” 
                   A) Patrick Geddes                               B) Emory        
                   C) Black and Champion                           D) Clover and Balsley  
               23. The variable that is antecedent to the dependent variable is termed as an ………………? 
                   A) Independent variable                         B) Controlled variable        
                   C) Confounding variable                         D) Ordinal variable