What is the goal of explanatory research?
A) Understand the underpinnings of natural phenomena and to explain systematic relationships among them.
B) Begins with the phenomenon of interest, but rather than simply observing and describing it, exploratory research investigates the full nature of the phenomenon, the manner in which it is manifested, and the other factors to which it is related.
C) Study phenomena about which little is known.
D) Make predictions and to control phenomena based on research findings.
Question 2
In Spradley's method of ethnographic work, there are four levels of analysis: idiographic, nomothetic, thematic, and interpretive.
A) True
B) False
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