In survey research, what is sampling?

A. The collection of a representative sample of a larger population
B. The interviewing of a small number of key cultural consultants
C. Participant observation
D. The collection of life histories of every member in a community
E. The recording of the emic perspective


A. The collection of a representative sample of a larger population

Anthropology & Archaeology

You might also like to view...

For modern biologists, the defining feature of a species is usually

A) geographic isolation from other species B) greater than 50% genetic incompatibility C) the phenotypic similarity of its members D) phenotypic differences from other species E) reproductive isolation from other species

Anthropology & Archaeology

During the Cold War of 1945-1989:

a. The economic problems of people in poor nations were largely ignored. b. Peace was maintained almost everywhere in the world by the balance of power between the United States and the Soviets. c. People in the world's poor nations fought proxy wars with money and weapons supplied by the United States and the Soviet Union. d. People in the poor nations were largely free to construct their own economic and political systems in response to local tradition and condition. e. The Soviet Union and the United States focused almost all their attention on Asia and only rarely intervened in African nations.

Anthropology & Archaeology

What is income?

What will be an ideal response?

Anthropology & Archaeology

Primatology is the study of

a. human evolution. b. human skeletal material. c. skeletal remains at crime scenes. d. disease in earlier human groups. e. the biology and behavior of non-human primates

Anthropology & Archaeology