A researcher asks whether obtained results apply only to the people studied or to the whole world. This researcher is questioning the _____ of the research.
A. reliability
B. validity
C. generalizability
D. replication
Answer: C
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A. 16 percent B. 32 percent C. 47 percent D. 62 percent
Dr. Wong is doing research in a country with a contraceptive use rate below 25% and a general fertility rate of 7. What assumption can be made about this country?
a) It has a high mortality rate. b) It is a developed nation. c) It has a large number of immigrants. d) It has a rapidly rising population.
__________, one of the founding sociologists, urged sociologists to understand a social setting from the point of view of the people in it
a. Karl Marx b. Emile Durkheim c. Auguste Comte d. Max Weber
The term ______ refers to a fear of those who are different or foreign.
a. xenophobia b. intolerance c. prejudice d. ethnocentricity