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Nominalists believe that reality is: |
| | A) | Fixed and stable |
| | B) | Fluid and beyond comprehension |
| | C) | Reflected in social laws |
| | D) | Subjectively created as objects are named |
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The understanding of "texts" is central to what intellectual tradition? |
| | A) | Enlightenment philosophy |
| | B) | Hermeneutics |
| | C) | Phenomenology |
| | D) | Symbolic interactionism |
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Symbolic interactionism argues that a more complete understanding of the social world can be developed through a consideration of: |
| | A) | Significant others |
| | B) | The generalized other |
| | C) | Significant symbols |
| | D) | All of the above |
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Grounded theories should be based on what kind of knowledge? |
| | A) | Local, emergent, and intersubjective |
| | B) | Scientific, objective, and generalizable |
| | C) | Ideological, emancipatory, and ontological |
| | D) | All of the above |
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In a grounded theory investigation of how adolescents try to resist offers of drugs in interaction, data for the study could include all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | interviews with teens about their experiences in being offered drugs |
| | B) | interviews with parents about their experiences in being offered drugs |
| | C) | observation of real or simulated drug resistance interactions |
| | D) | popular press and fictionalized accounts of drug resistance among adolescents |
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Max Weber advocated: |
| | A) | a move toward an interpretive social science that could account for the subjective meanings of individuals involved in social action. |
| | B) | the a priori knowledge humans have that is independent from the outside world. |
| | C) | that all explanation can be based on the observation of matter and motion. |
| | D) | the process of tacking, or going back and forth between theory, tacit knowledge and textual data. |
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Several central ideas of hermeneutic scholarship include all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | emphasis on the importance of understanding as a goal of social analysis. |
| | B) | emphasis on distinguishing between the knower and the known as a founding principle. |
| | C) | emphasis on the central concept of text, and proposes that a wide variety of actions and created objects in social life can be regarded as a text. |
| | D) | development of the hermeneutic circle, to argue against the distinction between the knower and the known. |
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Transcendental phenomenology (sometimes called classical phenomenology) was founded by: |
| | A) | Edmund Husserl. |
| | B) | Alfred Schutz. |
| | C) | George Herbert Mead. |
| | D) | Martin Heidegger. |
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The role of values in theory development and research is called: |
| | A) | epistemology. |
| | B) | ontology. |
| | C) | hermeneutics. |
| | D) | axology. |
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The first and most basic principle of phenomenology is that: |
| | A) | the world is experienced through language. |
| | B) | knowledge is not found in external experience but in individual consciousness. |
| | C) | meaning is derived from the potential for a particular object or experience in a person's life. |
| | D) | none of the above. |
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