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What of the following descriptions is a summary of what opportunity sampling is?   The researchers go out looking for the right number of each sort of person required in each category. Contacting a number of key individuals, who are asked to suggest others who might be interviewed, and so on, adding to the sample, until enough data has been collected. The sample is selected purely by random chance. For example, names may be drawn out of a hat. Involves choosing from those individuals who are easiest to access. Examples include selecting from passers-by in the street or from a captive audience such as a class of pupils.

What of the following descriptions is a summary of what opportunity sampling is?   The researchers go out looking for the right number of each sort of person required in each category. Contacting a number of key individuals, who are asked to suggest others who might be interviewed, and so on, adding to the sample, until enough data has been collected. The sample is selected purely by random chance. For example, names may be drawn out of a hat. Involves choosing from those individuals who are easiest to access. Examples include selecting from passers-by in the street or from a captive audience such as a class of pupils.

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  1. What of the following descriptions is a summary of what opportunity sampling is?

 

  1. The researchers go out looking for the right number of each sort of person required in each category.
  2. Contacting a number of key individuals, who are asked to suggest others who might be interviewed, and so on, adding to the sample, until enough data has been collected.
  3. The sample is selected purely by random chance. For example, names may be drawn out of a hat.
  4. Involves choosing from those individuals who are easiest to access. Examples include selecting from passers-by in the street or from a captive audience such as a class of pupils.
  1. George Murdock is associated with this theory in sociology.
    1. Marxism
    2. Feminism
    3. Functionalism
    4. Interactionism
  2. According to Karl Marx, society will eventually transition to this state.
  1. Communism
  2. Socialism
  3. Anarchy
  4. Rights-based
  1. Taking yourself out of society and looking at it from an alien's point of view is ___________________.
  1. conflict perspective
  2. sociological Perspective
  3. functionalist Perspective
  4. sociological Imagination

 

  1. The world sees females as inferior to males." This is a statement made by a person who is following ________________.
  1. race-Conflict Perspective
  2. symbolic-Interactionism
  3. conflict Theory
  4. Gender-Conflict Perspective

Interactionalist Perspectives.

  1. Hunting and gathering societies typical had these features.:
  1. invented the internet and shared common similarities and uniqueness
  2. were involved in global trade from various countries in the Caribbean
  3. lived off the resources that were directly around them such as animals and vegetation
  4. lived from internet sources that was seen globally and involved human interaction
  1. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Industrial Revolution?
    1. the means of production were mechanized as a result of new technology
    2. most people continued to live in rural areas
    3. began in Britain and spread to other countries through diffusion
    4. new modes of transportation brought about greater mobility

 

  1. One of the basic tenets of the functionalist perspective on social stratification is that:
    1. positions in the society are of equal importance
    2. inequality is unnecessary but inevitable
    3. the ease of filling positions in society varies because of social status
    4. positions in the society have different functional importance
  2. Brathwaite notes two important concepts in the creolization process:
    1. acculturation and yoking
    2. assimilation and acculturation
    3. acculturation and interculturation
    4. osmosis and yoking
    5. acculturation’ and ‘ interculturation’
  3. Exogamy refers to the practice of...
    1. marrying religious figures
    2. marrying outside of one’s social group
    3. marrying within one's social group
    4. marrying distant relatives 
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