The Redtail school district has inadequate supplies and textbooks for its students. The children of the
Bluecrest school district have an excellent school district with all of the resources they need.
Despite the
obvious inequality between these two school districts, several members of the Redtail PTA argue that
Redtail and Bluecrest school districts are treated equally by the state educational board. An educational
sociologist from the critical social science approach would say that members of the Readtail PTA suffer from
A) verstehen. B) false consciousness.
C) intersubjectivity. D) reification.
Dr. Bootsma designed and produced a 30 second radio commercial for a local automobile dealer. Next, she
had the three most widely listened to radio stations in town play the commercial 15 times a day, everyday, for
two weeks.
She waited until the end of the two-week period, then she called Jack to see what his sales had
been lately. What experimental design did she use?
A) time series B) one-shot case study
C) static group comparison D) classical experiment
Positivism seeks universal laws, and positivist researchers attempt to create law-like generalizations to
explain events in the social world. This focus on laws in explanation is called
A) nomothetic. B) verstehen. C) determinism. D) ideographic.
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