Describe at least one disadvantage to the social scientific approach.

What will be an ideal response?


Research methods are often culturally insensitive, not taking into account differences in race, religion, gender, sexuality, education, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. (Other disadvantages are multiple variables, restrictive nature of constructing questionnaires, participant accuracy and convenient [but nonrepresentative] samples.)

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a. places b. people c. concepts d. events e . conditions

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Negotiation is defined as moving two parties from opposite positions to a common position of settlement over some resource desired by both parties

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Padma used an atlas to find which major cities were closest to Danville, Illinois for her speech on living in a small town. Which type of supporting material is she using?

A. reference work B. periodical C. abstract D. government publication

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Previewing main points in the thesis statement, stating each main point clearly, and providing transitions will .

a. help the audience follow the speech and retain the information b. overwhelm the audience with too much information c. make your speech boring d. None of the choices are correct.

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