Question

1. True or Fale

A. Social science often debunks common-sense ideas.

B.Evaluation research may be used to determine the effectiveness of a social policy.

C.Measurement of a variable of interest can be done in many ways.

D.Culture shock refers to the personal disorientation that people feel when they visit a culture that is similar to theirs.

E.Subculture refers to distinctive lifestyles and values shared by a category of people within a society.

F.Societies seldom change over time.

G.Both structural functionalism and social conflict theory are more likely to examine the role of social
structure in understanding society than is symbolic interactionism.

H.Theory can be used implicitly or explicitly in social science research.

Answer 1

• A) true.as it debuks taken for granted assumptions and common sense explanations.
• B)true.. it determines the effectiveness of a social policy.
• C)true. There are four different types of measurement scales- nominal,ordinal, interval and ratio.
• D) false.culture shock is disorientation that people feel when they visit a culture which is not familiar to theirs.
• E) true.
• F)true. Eg: status of women in a society is not static.
• G) false. It is true only in case of structural functionalism.
• Social conflict theory argues that individuals within socisociety interact on the basis of conflicts.
• H) true.theory can be used both implicitly and explicitly