Lesson 4.1.3.4
4.1.3.4 Considerations in choosing topic and methods Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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Which factor is a practical consideration when selecting a sociological research method?
- Theoretical perspective
- Ethical consent
- Validity and reliability
- Time and money
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Which factor is a theoretical consideration when choosing a research method?
- Time and money
- Participant access
- Validity and reliability
- Project funding
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Which ethical principle requires participants to voluntarily agree after understanding a study's details?
- Protection from harm
- Informed consent
- Anonymity
- Confidentiality
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Which ethical problem is directly created by conducting covert participant observation?
- Hawthorne effect
- Lack of consent
- Low validity
- High financial cost
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What risk occurs if a researcher selects a method based solely on convenience?
- Increased sample size
- Reduced validity
- Improved reliability
- Higher financial cost
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What primary ethical issue arises when researching asylum seekers in detention?
- Theoretical bias
- Participant vulnerability
- Financial cost
- Sampling frame
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What issue occurs when commercial funding threatens sociological objectivity?
- Conflict of interest
- Gatekeeper refusal
- Sample attrition
- Informed consent
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What role does a head teacher play when deciding whether research can occur in a school?
- Participant
- Research sponsor
- Peer reviewer
- Gatekeeper
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What main drawback affects research using a small, unrepresentative sample?
- Low validity
- Low generalisability
- Ethical harm
- High cost
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Which ethical principle requires researchers to avoid causing any harm to participants?
- Informed consent
- Anonymity
- Operationalisation
- Protection from harm
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Which theoretical factor influences choosing unstructured interviews over structured questionnaires?
- Quantitative reliability
- Statistical power
- Qualitative depth
- Representative sampling
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What process involves researchers self-reflecting on how their personal values influence research?
- Operationalisation
- Reflexivity
- Triangulation
- Positivism
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Why would a sociologist choose a longitudinal study over a cross-sectional study?
- Eliminating sample attrition
- Ensuring total anonymity
- Studying temporal change
- Reducing research costs
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What is the main practical difficulty when studying hard-to-reach groups like homeless youth?
- Accessing participants
- Data storage
- Standardising questions
- Ethical approval
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Which organisation produces ethical guidelines for British sociological research?
- Department for Education
- British Sociological Association
- Home Office
- Economic Social Council
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What is a major practical advantage of using secondary data over primary data?
- Perfect topic match
- Higher validity
- Time and cost
- Total researcher control
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Why can qualitative results from ten student interviews not be applied nationally?
- High participant risk
- Unreliable data coding
- Lack of depth
- Lack of representativeness
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What type of research factor is head teacher access refusal?
- Theoretical preference
- Practical constraint
- Ethical issue
- Methodological norm
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Which practical resources most directly determine the maximum sample size in research?
- Time and money
- Validity and reliability
- Hypotheses and theories
- Values and beliefs
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What key ethical requirement must be secured before audio recording an interview?
- Informed consent
- Statistical significance
- Sample representativeness
- Positivist objectivity
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