<p>Soc332 Assignment 9</p><p>Name Point ______</p><p>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.</p><p> a. Describe the first approach</p><p>What are the advantages of the first approach?</p><p>What are the disadvantages of the first approach?</p><p> b. Describe the second approach. </p><p>What are the advantages of the second approach?</p><p>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.</p><p> a. The mayor of the city</p><p> b. The chief of police in this city</p><p> c. The prosecutor in this city</p><p> d. A defense lawyer</p><p> e. A prisoner in the city jail</p><p>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.</p>