In survey research, what is sampling?
A. the collection of a study group from a larger population
B. the interviewing of a small number of key cultural consultants
C. a form of participant observation
D. the collection of life histories of every member in a community
E. a collection reflecting the emic perspective
Question 2
Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that
A. challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world.
B. becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture.
C. is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena.
D. is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots.
E. requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.
Amazing NASA Pictures Collection
A very small sampling of organisms in an arctic food web on land.