Define "master status" and give two examples
What will be an ideal response?
A master status is defined as a status that takes precedence over all of an individual's other statuses. It largely determines his/her social identity. Examples are race or gender.
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What type of movement seeks to improve society by changing some specific aspect of the social structure?
a. religious b. revolutionary c. reform d. alternative
In which of the following scenarios is focus group interviewing BEST applicable?
a. The researcher is interested in exploring people’s behavior. b. The researcher may have grounds to believe that if interviewed together, people may influence each other’s opinions and bias the truthfulness of responses. c. The researcher’s goal is to generalize from the focus group to the larger population and participants may be too similar in characteristics and not really representative of the population. d. The researcher is interested in getting information about a controversial topic from several participants in as short a time period as possible.
For a project in her statistics class, Jody goes to the mall to ask people questions about their relationships. Jody is using a(n):
A) convenience sample. B) representative sample. C) unethical research procedure. D) longitudinal procedure.
The Exxon Valdez incident in 1989 illustrates the nature of
A. nuclear contamination. B. air pollution. C. water pollution. D. land pollution.