Porter is studying the influenza pandemic of world war i. he is examining letters, journal entries, autobiographies, and newspaper articles from that time to see how fear of the disease affected the daily life of millions of people throughout europe during that era. which statement describes the type of history porter is writing?
a. porter is writing social history because he is focusing on lives of large numbers of ordinary people.

b. porter is writing medical history because he is focusing on the cause of the epidemic and the number of people who died.

c. porter is writing cultural history because he is focusing on how the epidemic was portrayed in literary sources.

d. porter is writing economic history because he is focusing on the cost of developing vaccines.

e. porter is writing biography because he is focusing on the actions of certain individuals.

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.