Atheory: a. occurs with unvarying uniformity under ideal conditions. b. explains why events occur in nature. c. does not have to have the agreement of the scientific community. d. asks a question that needs to be answered. e. is the result of one single well-proven and well accepted-hypothesis.

What was included in most state constitutions that guaranteed protection of individual liberties based upon common law?

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject.a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher.wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners.acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.

1.3.3 quiz: primary and secondary sourcesquestion 4 of 102 pointsa secondary source is reliable and credible if the person who created thesource is an expert on the topic, is educated and respected in the field ofstudy, and: