To what extent do the personal dimensions of participant observation undermine or enhance its validity? Illustrate your answer with examples from the text.

What will be an ideal response?


Personal relationships with informants, increase contact brings sympathy, “going native.”

Political Science

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In matters of religion, the free exercise clause protects individuals from which of the following?

A. discrimination B. persecution C. government interference D. segregation

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What trade agreement was strongly opposed by Venezuela President Hugo Chávez?

a. The U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. b. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. c. The North American Free Trade Agreement. d. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

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Candidates who make personal contact with voters are using:

a. A one-on-one strategy. b. A power strategy. c. A media strategy. d. An oppositional strategy.

Political Science

Which of the following is not one of the interests that developed countries generally share in international affairs?

a. a common sympathy with the interests of developing countries b. acceptance of international law c. support for the liberal international economic order d. belief in individual human rights

Political Science