List of top Research Methodology Questions asked in GATE Humanities and Social Sciences- Sociology

Fill in the blank with the CORRECT option.
________ is a non-probabilistic form of sampling that samples cases/participants relevant to research questions. This sampling does not allow the researcher to generalize to a population.
Which of the following is/are qualitative data analysis software?
Which of the following is/are characteristic feature(s) of ethnography?
Which one of the following refers to an approach that was originally devised to understand or interpret theological texts?
____________________ has given the concept of `thick description'.
Supremacy of science over non-sciences is attributed to ______________________.
Communism, universalism, disinterestedness and _______ constitute Mertonian ethos of science.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of hypothesis?
Objectivity in social science research as a matter of transpersonal replicability entails ________________________.
There are four forms of triangulation, namely data triangulation, ______________________, theory triangulation and ______________________.
________ refers to the careful consideration of the ways in which researchers’ past experiences, points of view, and roles impact these same researchers’ interactions with, and interpretations of, the research scene.
____________________ is the process by which researchers begin by identifying several participants who fit the study’s criteria and then ask these people to suggest a colleague, a friend, or a family member who also fits the study’s criteria.
______________________________ introduced the concept of ‘reconstructive science’.