Your Book Discusses That Sometimes Participant Observation and Intensive Interviewing

question 30

Essay

Your book discusses that sometimes participant observation and intensive interviewing can be used in combination with one another. First describe one benefit of using mixed methods. Second, using the example of police-community relations, describe at least two ways that using observations and intensive interviewers together could be useful to uncover detailed information about police-community relations.

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Definitions:

Desensitization

The process by which someone is made less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty, violence, or suffering by being exposed to them repeatedly.

Media Content

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R-rated

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Skin Conductance

A measure of the electrical conductivity of the skin, which varies with its moisture level and is used in psychophysiological research to gauge emotional or physiological arousal.