Purposively selected groups of volunteers who are brought together in order to record their reactions or attitudes regarding products, candidate speeches, and the like are:

a. exit polls
b. focus groups
c. snowball samples
d. rotated panels


A

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a. Intermediate punishments c. This or that corrections b. Revolving door corrections d. Either/or corrections

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Because qualitative researchers seek to discover what people think in a certain social situation, qualitative research often

A) Begins with an emphasis on numbers-driven research at first, only later turning to a participant’s understanding of how and why they act a certain way B) Has a commitment to inductive reasoning in order to discover what people think as well as how and why they act in certain social settings C) Begins with preformulated hypotheses D) Has its beginnings in widely studied social processes and anticipated phenomena do as to understand why people act as they do

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Which public interest group provided briefs that became the basis for the Supreme Court's decisions in the Mapp and Miranda cases?

A. Mothers Against Drunk Driving B. the Warren Commission C. Risk Management D. the American Civil Liberties Union

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According to Sutherland, businessmen were often contemptuous of the laws governing their business activities, and did not suffer a loss of status if convicted of business-related offenses

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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