Question 1: What is another name for the research method that is referred to as "participant observation"?
A. Fieldwork
B. Survey research
C. Secondary analysis
D. Experimentation
Question 2: Anthony is conducting experimental research on the effects of an educational therapy program and the conflict handling skills of inmates. He has established two groups. Group A will receive a special conflict handling therapy program. Group B will go about their routine without receiving the therapy or a therapy substitute. What is the name of Group B in experimental research such as this?
A. The control group
B. The treatment group
C. The placebo group
D. The reference group
Question 3: When sociologists use the phrase "the culture within us," what do they mean?
A. Culture is based on genetics transmitted from one generation to the next through genes.
B. Culture is a matter of instinct that all people around the world share.
C. Culture is affected by several biological factors that differ from person to person.
D. Shared and learned ways of believing and doing become taken-for-granted assumptions.
Question 4: __________ is the tendency to use our own group's ways of doing things as the yardstick for judging the behavior, values, and beliefs of others.
A. Culture shock
B. Ethnocentrism
C. Relativist fallacy
D. Multiculturalism