Activities Inventory

 

From: Eleen A. Baumann, Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., and Caroline Hodges Persell, Encountering Society: Student Resource Manual and Instructor’s Manual to accompany Persell, Caroline Hodges. 1987. Understanding Society. Second Edition. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishing, Inc.

 

In completing the exercise below, remember that valid and reliable results in social research depend on respondents answering accurately and honestly. Your answers will remain anonymous. Social scientists do not base their finding on individual results; rather they are interested in trends in behavior and factors that influence the likelihood of a person behaving in a given fashion. There are no right or wrong answers to this questionnaire. Just report on your own behavior.

 

Your age:________    Male____    Female____    Major:___________________

 

If you are under age 18, fill in only Column A. If you are over 18, fill in Column A for your behaviors before age 18 and Column B for those behaviors when 18 or older. Circle the appropriate answer: 0 = never, 1 = one, 2 = more than once.

	A	B
Have you ever intentionally:	Under 18	18 or older
Skipped school?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Ran Away?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Driven a car without being legally licensed?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Driven a car while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Been on probation or expelled from school?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Defied your parents’ authority?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Stolen items worth less than $2	0 1 2	0 1 2
Stolen items worth from $2 to $50?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Stolen items worth more than $50?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Drank beer, wine, or liquor?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Smoked marijuana?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Used amphetamines (uppers, speed)?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Used cocaine?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Had a hangover?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Been so drunk that you couldn’t remember the next day things you did or said?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Taken office items belonging to your employer?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Cheated on an exam or class assignment?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Driven faster than the speed limit allowed?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Had sexual relations with a person of opposite sex to whom you were not married?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Had sexual relations with a person of same sex?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Been arrested as a juvenile?	0 1 2	0 1 2
Purposely damaged public property?	0 1 2	0 1 2
How would you classify the family which raised you? (circle one) Upper-upper class Lower-upper class Upper-middle class Lower-middle class Upper-working class Lower-working class Upper-lower class Lower-lower class