Researchers who spend time living among a group of people learning their culture and customs are engaging in ______.
a. ethnographic fieldwork
b. qualitative research
c. focus group study
d. participant observation
Ans: A
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following statements is true?
a. More college students are drinking heavily than in the past and fewer are abstaining b. Heavy drinking remains high among college students but more are abstaining than in the past. c. Heavy drinking has decreased markedly over the past ten years but fewer are abstaining. d. Heavy drinking is down among college students and more are abstaining than in the past.
Modernity can be described in terms of ______, but postmodernity cannot.
A. the economy B. rationality C. exploitation D. solidarity
During the planning of the Bay of Pigs invasion in the 1960s, the drive for consensus among President Kennedy’s advisors prohibited discussions that may have prevented a disastrous mission. This situation best exemplifies which sociological concept?
a. bureaucracy b. laissez-faire leadership c. groupthink d. group cohesiveness