The goal of qualitative comparative analysis is to do which of the following?

a. Identify different pathways that lead to an outcome of interest
b. Use ethnographic data from two or more sources
c. Identify common themes among actors in a single setting
d. Authenticate conclusions derived from one setting in another setting
e. Reduce the artificiality created by the presence of a researcher


a. Identify different pathways that lead to an outcome of interest

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No authors of texts on drug use have included marijuana in which of the following categories?

A. sedative B. narcotic C. hallucinogen D. stimulant E. Some writers have included marijuana as belonging in each of these categories.

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Some of the component core tasks of psychotherapy include developing a therapeutic alliance, educating patients, nurturing hope, and ensuring that

a) the therapist takes credit for change. b) the patient takes credit for change. c) the patient resolves his feared unconscious impulses. d) the therapist maintains appropriate therapeutic boundaries.

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A positivist view of evaluation research would be most clearly consistent with which of the following statements?

a. Evaluation research methods are objective tools that assist in achieving social betterment b. What is considered a social problem and what is considered social betterment depends on whose perspective one uses. c. The results of evaluation research have to do with the exercise of power. d. Evaluation research is inherently political in nature.

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Which would NOT be considered within a definition of social welfare as transactions outside the economic marketplace?

a. loans to airlines facing bankruptcy. b. agricultural subsidies. c. services at a mental health clinic. d. FHA home loans.

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