A goal of ethnography that makes it different from other methods of testing theories is that in ethnography, the researcher

a. tries to understand the group or culture without imposing his or her own ideas on it.
b. focuses on interjudge reliability.
c. relies on the accumulated documents of a culture as a technique for understanding.
d. focuses on assessing behaviors that occur more often in private than in public.


Answer: A

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