A structural explanation is when

A) a researcher describes a chain of cause and effect as being like a string of balls in a row such that hitting
one causes it to hit another and so forth.
B) a researcher attempts to comprehend or mentally grasp the social world in terms of the subjective world
view of other people.
C) a researcher explains something of interest by identifying its cause or causes.
D) a researcher uses an interconnected Web of concepts and relationships around a central idea or
describes a sequence of phases in which one occurs before the next.


D

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