Professor Hangnail wants to study how people join a small extremist political organization dedicated to right-wing ideas. He first interviews recent recruits and asks who introduced him/her to the organization
He next interviews the named person and asked who introduced them to the organization, and so forth. This is
A) snowball sampling.
B) systematic sampling.
C) deviant case sampling.
D) accidental sampling.
E) cluster sampling.
A
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_________________is known by many names including ice, chalk, crack, glass, and G
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