Read the Following Vignette and Answer the Subsequent Questions to the Best

question 26

Multiple Choice

Read the following vignette and answer the subsequent questions to the best of your ability.
A sociologist is interested in studying the causes of suicide in society. She begins her research by developing a project in which she asks suicide survivors to discuss the reasons for committing suicide, the personal and social conditions that led to their decision to commit the act. In the second project, she examined another researcher's survey data from a national sample of U.S. citizens. Her first set of analysis found that depression is associated with the desire to commit suicide but many people who thought about committing suicide never made any attempt to do so. She also found that people who have experienced a stressful life event, such as a job loss or divorce, were more likely to report the desire to commit suicide.
-Overall, this project best exemplifies which of the following research techniques?

• A) survey methods
• B) experiments
• C) field methods
• D) mixed-method

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