QuestionAnswerWhich materials are considered secondary data?Books and articles written by other authors about their studiesPhotos and letters given to you by another personInformation that you have gathered and now have included in your resultsResponses from participants whom you both surveyed and interviewedWhy is choosing a random sample an effective way to select participants?Everyone has the same chance of being part of the studyParticipants do not know they are part of a studyThe researcher has no control over who is in the studyIt is larger than an ordinary sampleWhat research method did John S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd mainly use in their Middletown study?Participant observationSecondary dataSurveyExperimentWhich research approach is best suited to the scientific method?Secondary data analysisQuestionnaireCase studyEthnographyThe main difference between ethnography and other types of participant observation is:ethnography focuses on how subjects view themselves in relationship to the communityethnography isn’t based on hypothesis testingethnography subjects are unaware they’re being studiedethnographic studies always involve minority ethnic groupsWhich best describes the results of a case study?Its results are not generally applicableIt produces more reliable results than other methods because of its depthIt relies solely on secondary data analysisAll of theseUsing secondary data is considered an unobtrusive or ________ research method.nonreactivenonparticipatorynonrestrictivenonconfrontiveYour questions are stored by us to improve Elon.ioPractice this lessonThe content of this course has been taken from the free Sociology textbook by Openstax
