What Are the Advantages of the First Approach?
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Soc332 Assignment 9
Name Point ______
1. You want to study the ways in which a local public official tries to win re- election. There are at least two fundamentally different approaches to gaining access – 1) Covert and 2) Overt Observation. Describe two approaches and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
a. Describe the first approach
What are the advantages of the first approach?
What are the disadvantages of the first approach?
b. Describe the second approach.
What are the advantages of the second approach?
What are the disadvantages of the second approach? 5. Consider the following potential “informants” in a study of police behavior in a small city of 20,000 population. Discuss the pluses and minuses of trusting the information of each informant listed.
a. The mayor of the city
b. The chief of police in this city
c. The prosecutor in this city
d. A defense lawyer
e. A prisoner in the city jail
7. A social scientist who is a member of an organization decides to do a field study of this organization and receives funding from the organization for the study. Describe the major problems in this situation.