Author Question: A researcher is interested in the changing nature of sex roles in contemporary society. If she were ... (Read 124 times)

pragya sharda · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A researcher is interested in the changing nature of sex roles in contemporary society. If she were to employ an archival analysis, what would she be most likely to do?

a. record how boys and girls are portrayed in children's books
b. observe both men and women in non-traditional occupations
c. interview both male and female doctors to determine how they are treated by colleagues
d. participate in the daily activities of a family in which the woman works and the man stays home

Question 2

In order to examine the prevalence of drug use in several different generations of Americans,

a researcher decides to collect the lyrics from the fifty most popular songs from each decade, 19402010, and to code those lyrics for how often drug-related themes were present. Which of the following methods is this researcher using?

a. correlational
b. observational
c. archival
d. cross-sectional