Professor Cay notes that respondent Mary Ginger is a 54-year-old grandmother who has two grandchildren living in her household. Neither of the grandchildren's parents live with them. Cay also learns that Ginger had to quit her job in order to stay home with the young grandchildren because Ginger feared leaving the two youngsters with a baby-sitter. Ginger told Professor Cay that two of her
friends were dealing with similar situations and a third friend was considering whether to obtain custody of her grandchild. Using this information, it sounds like Professor Cay is doing a
a. case-oriented nomothetic analysis.
b. case-oriented idiographic analysis.
c. variable-oriented nomothetic analysis.
d. variable-oriented idiographic analysis.
e. cross-case analysis.
B
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