RMC201 - Fall 2022 - FU Hòa Lạc

1. Which is NOT a kind of research interviews?

(Choose one answer)

A. Unstructured interviews.

B. Formal interviews.

C. Informal interviews.

D. Semi-structured interviews.

E. Structured interviews.

B. Formal interviews.

2. What does participant observation differ from everyday observation?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Focusing on what the observer wants to find out (objective and systematic), not trying to make sense of things.

B. Always observing people and events and trying to make sense of things.

C. Research on everyday routines.

D. Interview people and get firsthand information that way.

A. Focusing on what the observer wants to find out (objective and systematic), not trying to make sense of things.

3. Which is RIGHT about 'ethnomethodology research"?

(Choose one answer)

A. "Common sense becomes a subject of inquiry, not just a "given neglected for other concerns.

B. in contrast to laboratory experiments or focus groups or other situations (in which people recognize that they are being studied).

C. is interested in how people think and act in everyday-life situations.

D. All of others are correct.

D. All of others are correct.

4. Which Rhetorical Device does following explanation refer to? uses analogy to generate meaning, as in "My love is a red rose".

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Metaphor.

B. Rhythm.

C Rhyme.

D. Metonymy.

A. Metaphor.

5. "Find a subject you are interested in that can be researched in the time available to you" is w content belongs to the checklist for planning research and writing reports?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Designing your research project.

B. Organizing your data for presentation.

C. Choosing your research topic.

D. Determining the appropriate method for your project.

C. Choosing your research topic.

6. What is semiotics?

(Choose one answer)

A. sign processes.

B. a particular cultural concept.

C the science of signature.

D. the science of signs.

D. the science of signs.

7. In........the investigator manipulates only some of the variables in an established social setting.

(Choose one answer)

A. Artificial environment experiments.

B. Natural experiments.

C. Laboratory experiments.

D. Field experiments.

D. Field experiments.

8. According to Post-Soviet Marxist Criticism, in countries such as the United States, Marxist critics attention now on the following, EXCEPT

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Inequality in the United States and all problems that stem from it.

B. The way the wealthy are able to dominate the political agenda.

C. The extent to which the media are becoming more and more centralized and function as tools of the ruling classes.

D. None of above is correct.

D. None of above is correct.

9.

- Who are you observing?

- How many people are involved?

- How are they related to one another?

- What is their function in the group being studied?

- What is the nature of the group being studied?

In which consideration that these key questions are used for a participant observation?

(Choose one answer)

A. The nature and purpose of the group.

B. The setting.

C. The participants.

D. The behavior of people in the group.

C. The participants.

10. The English social anthropologist Mary Douglas argued that the variability of an individual's i social life can be adequately captured by two dimensions of sociality, which are__________________

(Choose one answer)

A. Conformity and Nonconformity.

B. Cultures and Politics.

C. Group and Grid.

D. Collectivism and Individualism.

C. Group and Grid.

11. The American political scientist, Wildavsky in "Conditions for a Pluralist Democracy, or Cultu Means More Than One Political Culture in a Country" (1982), wrote that there are four politic groups. The four different political cultures are all of the following, EXCEPT.....

(Choose one answer)

A. Averagelists: Group bouridaries medium, prescriptions average.

B. Egalitarians: Group boundaries strong, prescriptions few.

C. Individualists Group boundaries weak, prescriptions few.

D. Elitists: Group boundaries strong, prescriptions numerous.

A. Averagelists: Group bouridaries medium, prescriptions average.

12. What is "determine measurable scoring units in a content analysis?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. This means before you begin, you have to decide what you are going to measure and what you hope to find out.

B. This is a process by which we classify data obtained from material studied and give each item in a category a symbol or number.

C. This means when making content analyses, examine only the manifest content of texts-that is, what is explicitly stated-rather than the latent content, the " hidden "material behind or between the words

D. This means figuring out your basic or standard unit of measurement.

D. This means figuring out your basic or standard unit of measurement.

13. According to the textbook, every word that writers use represents a choice they make and ea to create a deliberate impression. The discussion of language choice suggests a larger them speaking and writing in discourse analysis) such as Bureaucratic/Official and Dreamy.

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Communication.

B. Content.

C. Choice.

D. Styles.

D. Styles.

14. This is the specific set of questions that respondents answer

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Participant observation.

B. Questionnaire.

C. Historical analysis.

D. Content analysis.

B. Questionnaire.

15. Which is NOT a thing that investigative reporters usually do?

(Choose one answer)

A. Be a good listener.

B. Use Uh-huh" and other phatic communications.

C. Ask questions of WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and HOW.

D. Be judgmental: Show how they feel about informant's response.

D. Be judgmental: Show how they feel about informant's response.

16. Which of the following content is one of the common fallacies in research?

(Choose one answer)

A. Sampling.

B. Incorrect assumptions.

C. Using the wrong statistical method.

D. Misrepresentation of research results.

B. Incorrect assumptions.

17. Which is NOT right about "Self photographs and videos by group members in participant observation?

(Choose one answer)

A. Cannot ask participant to take "selfies" with their colleagues, from time to time, to document their activities.

B. Make videos connected to the topic you are investigating and discuss what participant's photographs and videos reveal

C. Have group members take photographs

D. Ask the people taking photos and making videos to keep journals to document their activities.

A. Cannot ask participant to take "selfies" with their colleagues, from time to time, to document their activities

18. Temperature is a typical example of an _____________________ level of measurement.

(Choose one answer)

A. Ordinal.

B. Nominal.

C. Interval.

D. Ratio.

C. Interval.

19. The analysis of dialogue in media and the analyses that ethnomethodologists make of real-world conversations differ in that.

(Choose one answer)

A. They are mass-mediated texts, created by writers.

B. We are not dealing with a writer's perception of the world.

C. Writers create texts for large numbers of people.

D. None of others are correct.

A. They are mass-mediated texts, created by writers.

20. Different participants are used in each condition of the independent variable.

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Independent measures.

B. Repeated measures.

C. Dependent measures.

D. Matched pairs.

A. Independent measures.

21. Which is the polar opposition of a meditated violence?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Violence we see directly.

B. Violence to groups.

C. Serious violence.

D. Fictive meditated violence.

A. Violence we see directly.

22. Examples of data on.........level are demographics such as sex, nationality, and marital stat

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Nominal.

B. Interval.

C. Ratio.

D. Ordinal.

A. Nominal.

23. Jung (1968) made an analogy with instincts in explaining the.... Like the instincts, the collecti patterns of the human mind are innate and are inherited. This explains why certain themes a found in works of art all through history and everywhere in the world.

(Choose 1 answer)

A. the Collective Unconscious.

B. the Conscious.

C. instincts.

D. individual acquisition.

A. the Collective Unconscious.

24. Which is a disadvantage of survey questionnaires?

(Choose one answer)

A. Low response rate the norm.

B. No interviewer bias to worry about.

C. Time-consuming and expensive.

D. No intimidating.

A. Low response rate the norm

25. The linguist Roman Jakobson offered the well-known model for the communication process points, which are:

(Choose one answer)

A. the artist, the work of art, the audience, the medium and America (or any society)

B. Sender, Message, Contact. Receiver, Meaning

C. Who? What? Where? When? Why?

D. Who? Says what? In which channel? To whom? With what effect?

B. Sender, Message, Contact. Receiver, Meaning

26. Which is/are techniques that generate humor and laughter, can be applied in ethnomethodology?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Misunderstanding.

B. All of others are correct.

C. Facetiousness.

D. Absurdity.

B. All of others are correct.

27. What is a first thing for students who have chosen a fashionable-sounding research topic an they have little or no idea about how to design a research project or that they are unable to fi theoretical framework or any other research/studies relevant to their topic?

(Choose one answer)

A. considering the most appropriate research design and methodology

B. getting very frustrated

C. attempting to narrow down and focus the research question.

D. identifying and reviewing relevant literature.

D. identifying and reviewing relevant literature.

28. In archeology and civilization research, the ________ model can help to increase understandir have made meaning of deities and divinity through the ages by examining visual representat paintings.

(Choose one answer)

A. seminar.

B. semiotics.

C. symbol.

D. sign.

B. semiotics.

29. Freud suggested that the ego uses a number of defense mechanisms to help people ward o maintain psychological equilibrium. Which of the following is NOT one of the defense merchanism?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Denial.

B. Ambivalence.

C. Identification.

D. Fixation.

E. All of the above are defense mechanisms.

E. All of the above are defense mechanisms.

30 Which is NOT secondary source in writing history?

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Articles by other historians

B. Biographies

C. Newspaper articles

D. Editorials

C. Newspaper articles

31. According to Aristotle, rhetoric can be divided into two general areas, which are:

(Choose 1 answer)

A. verbal and nonverbal mode.

B. oral and written presentation.

C. texts and images.

D. public speaking and logical discussion.

D. public speaking and logical discussion.

32. According to Deborah Cameron and Ivan Panovic', discourse analysis...

(Choose 1 answer)

A. is used in many fields: cultural studies, law, literature, philosophy, media studies, sociology, and social psychology.

B. focuses attention not only on the content of written material but on the style that writers use, the language they use to express themselves, and the strategies they adopt to get their ideas across.

C. focuses on the "how" not the "what".

D. All of the above are correct

D. All of the above are correct

33. ..........applies the insights of Sigmund Freud and other thinkers, such as Carl Jung, to texts of a serious literature as well as mass-mediated texts.

(Choose one answer)

A. Discourse analysis.

B. Ideological criticism.

C Intercultural theory.

D. Psychoanalytic theory.

D. Psychoanalytic theory.

34. Suppose one were to say that a survey shows that 500 economists believe that the economy inflation. That figure means a lot if there are 1,000 economists in the country but not very mu 20,000. This mistake is the reverse of the preceding one, using percentages without giving a. This is .................. type of the common fallacies in research.

(Choose one answer)

A. Using seemingly impressive numbers.

B. Misleading use of the term average.

C. Ad hominem arguments.

D. Oversimplification.

A. Using seemingly impressive numbers.

35. In writing reports, make sure you use complete sentences and do not have sentence______ thoughts you think are sentences.

(Choose one answer)

A. Fragments.

B. Dashes and hyphens.

C. Coherence.

D. Awkward.

A. Fragments.

36. Regarding Styles Discourse, the styles that we adopt are shaped by:

(Choose 1 answer)

A. our intended audience (a dean at a university, a judge, a friend, a lover)

B. the kind of texts we are writing

C. the situations in which we find ourselves

D. various other social factors in our interactions with others.

E. All of the above are correct.

E. All of the above are correct.

37. In _______ section of research reports, you discuss what you found, talk about any problems you doing the research.

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Results.

B. Method.

C. Introduction.

D. Discussion.

D. Discussion.

38. Which of the following is NOT an example of useful responses to a statement by an informal interviews?

(Choose one answer)

A. "Is that because your teacher favors men over women?"

B. "When did it happen?"

C. "Who was involved?"

D. "And then what happened?"

A. "Is that because your teacher favors men over women?"

39. The term 'reviewing the literature crucially implies notions of comprehensiveness, thorough ________ and objective (or at least open-minded and non-prejudiced) and critical (in terms of assumptions, frameworks, methods and contributions of relevant research to the topic at hand.

(Choose 1 answer)

A. systematic.

B. system.

C. systems.

D. system test.

A. systematic.

40. To a semiotician, everything can be taken for a_______

(Choose one answer)

A. sign.

B. symbol.

C. signature.

D. icon.

A. sign.

41. Experiments give strong evidence that the discovered effect was not the result of some unre phenomenon

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Description of experiments research.

B. The structure of an experiments research.

C. Advantages of experiments research.

D. Disadvantages of experiments research.

C. Advantages of experiments research.

42. When we make an analogy, we compare two things and allege that they are similar in some ways, that is implication of_________ in common fallacies in research.

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Overgeneralizing.

B. Imperfect analogies and comparisons.

C Appealing to false authority.

D. Misrepresenting ideas of other people.

B. Imperfect analogies and comparisons.

43. This term means that we seek units for analysis and categorize them using clearly defined c analysis

(Choose 1 answer)

A. Quantitative.

B. Manifest.

C. Systematic.

D. Objective.

D. Objective.

44. Which sentence is RIGHT about God's Truth view in historical research?

(Choose one answer)

A. Theory creates pattem.

B. Impose structures on texts.

C. Discover what's in text.

D. Impose pattern on history.

C. Discover what's in text.

45. Which content is one of the common problems in preparing reports?

(Choose one answer)

A. Lack of budget.

B. Placing too much emphasis on a few statistics.

C. Lack of preparation.

D. Lack of time.

B. Placing too much emphasis on a few statistics.

46. Which is NOT right about analytic survey?

(Choose one answer)

A. Researchers seek to find out why people behave the way they do.

B. Researchers attempt to determine whether there are causal relationships between certain kinds of behavior.

C. Researchers use data from analytic surveys to develop hypotheses.

D. Researchers test their hypotheses about what causes certain kinds of behavior.

C. Researchers use data from analytic surveys to develop hypotheses.

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