The Yale Sociologist Kai Erikson Wrote a Book Called Wayward

question 77

Multiple Choice

The Yale sociologist Kai Erikson wrote a book called Wayward Puritans, in which he drew on court records from colonial Massachusetts. He learned that the rate of out-of-wedlock births was much higher than it is now and that the amount of alcohol consumed per capita was higher as well. What research methodology was Erikson using?

• A) ethnography
• B) comparative-historical research
• C) interviews
• D) surveys

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