Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.Salient issues are those that people think about most and about which they hold weak and changeable opinions.
2.The halo effect is the tendency of respondents to give “good-citizen” responses to pollsters, whether they are truthful or not.
3.Ethnography is the systematic description of a society’s customary behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes.
4.Field research often involves participant observation, during which the researcher both observes and participates in the society being studied.
5.A case study is a cursory investigation of a particular event in order to gain limited understanding of the event.


1.false
2.true
3.true
4.true
5.false

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