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Write two or more paragraphs answering the following questions:

• Share your reaction to the YouTube film “Nickel and Dimed: From the American Ruling Class.”
• Who is Barbara Ehrenreich? Describe her research methodology. What research method did she used?
• Can her research methodology be considered sociological? Can her research method be considered scientific? Why?

After submitting your answers, please reply to at least three (3) of our classmates’ posts, pointing out their good points as well as any limitation you see in their arguments.

Your original answer to the questions as well as your reply-comments to other students must be of substantial quality in order to get points. Substantial quality includes a demonstration that you have completed the required readings and videos and thought critically about them. Your answers and reply-comments must be original, use your own ideas and words. Do not copy from any website or written material from another person.

The Tools of Sociological Research

1. The Survey: Polls, Questionnaires, and Interviews. Surveys offer structured ways to ask people closed-ended or open-ended questions. The return rate is the percentage of questionnaires returned from all those distributed.
2. Participant Observation – combines subjective knowledge gained through personal involvement and objective knowledge acquired by disciplined recording of what one has seen.
3. Controlled Experiments – determine a pattern of cause and effect by comparing experimental and control groups.
4. Content Analysis – measures what people write, say, see, and hear through content analysis of artifacts. It has the advantage of being unobtrusive, but since it is based only on mass communication, it cannot tell us what people really think about these images or whether they affect people’s behavior.
5. Historical Research – examines sociological themes over time.
6. Evaluation Research – assesses the effect of policies and programs on people in society. Such research may have an important impact on controversial issues, and is called policy researchwhen it is used to produce policy recommendations. Research aiming to evaluate the sales potential of a product or service is called market research.

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