Dr Fielding Is Interested in the Stratification System in the United

question 29

Multiple Choice

Dr. Fielding is interested in the stratification system in the United States and how it is perpetuated through time. Fielding decides to examine the experiences of minority students who seek college counseling in high school. He interviews minority students in four high schools to learn whether their personal experiences tell him something about stratification in the United States. After interviewing the minority students, Fielding interviews nonminority students, school administrators, guidance counselors, teachers, parents, and social workers at the same four high schools. Fielding is probably using a/an _____ approach.

• A)participatory action research
• B)ethnomethodology
• C)ethnography
• D)case study
• E)institutional ethnography

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Definitions:

Franchises

Business models where individuals can buy the rights to open and operate a location of a larger company.

Capital Intensive

A characteristic of businesses that require large investments in capital assets, like machinery and equipment, to produce goods or services.

Labor Intensive

Describes a process or industry that requires a large amount of labor to produce its goods or services, compared to the amount of capital used.

Manufacturing Businesses

Companies engaged in the conversion of raw materials into finished products through the use of machinery and labor, often at a large scale.