What advantages might a project that combines both quantitative and qualitative techniques have over one that utilizes only one or the other? What research situation might be best suited to such a combined strategy?

What will be an ideal response?


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Although there has been a trend toward increasing democracies, all of the following were reported in 2012 EXCEPT:

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Which of the following was observed in the Bahia, Brazil, development project in which sailboat owners got loans to buy motors, as described in this chapter?

A. Ambitious young men increasingly sought wage labor. B. The fishing community became more egalitarian. C. There was an increase in commercial sailboat ownership. D. The price of power fishing vessels decreased. E. Individual initiative was rewarded, and the fishing industry grew.

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What is hegemony?

A. overt sociopolitical strategies used to control people B. use of social controls that induce guilt and shame in the population C. the critique of power by the oppressed that goes on offstage, in private, where the power holders can't see it D. a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination E. open, public interactions between dominators and the oppressed—the outer shell of power relations

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