When you have measured your study variables in a qualitative manner, you will see ______
A. numbers like 25 and 89
B. words
C. numbers of people placed into categories such as male and female
D. dichotomous categories like male and female, younger or older
Ans: B
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a. governmental, voluntary, and corporate sectors all contribute. b. the economy moves from surplus to deficit. c. all people in our country benefit from social welfare programs. d. both cash and in-kind services are provided.
A person's individual characteristics interact with external circumstances to affect his or her outcome. Some of these individual characteristics (micro level context) include:
A. Prejudice and discrimination B. Family C. Motivation D. Social class
The following is a cross-tabulation of whether respondents rent or own their home by social class for a sample of 240 heads of household:
Social Class Rent Own Total Lower class 62 18 80 Middle class 47 63 110 Upper class 11 39 50 Total 120 120 240 Housing Status a. Which is the independent variable and which is the dependent variable? b. Compute row percents for the cross-tabulation. c. What percent of the sample owns their home? d. What percent of the sample rents? e. What percent of the lower-class respondents owns? f. What percent of the middle-class respondents rents? (f g. Which social class has the greatest tendency to rent? h. Which social class has the greatest tendency to own? i. What can be concluded about the relationship between social class and housing status? What would be an ideal response?
The parental message that suggests to the child that he or she is the wrong sex, shape, size, or color, or has ideas or feelings that are unacceptable to parental figures, is
a. "Don't belong.". b. "Don't be you.". c. "Don't be close.". d. "Don't be a child.".