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1. When we approach to as on ethnogra- pher approaches a research setting we are considered

2. Eric Wolf in Peasant Wars of the Twenti- eth Contury asserts:

Wolf answers his research ques- tion by looking at what happened to peasant communities as capi- talism penetrated the countryside. argues that this economic, so- cial, and cultural transformation created the conditions on a vast scale for the uprooting of tradi- tional peasants, their molding into a proletarianized labor force, and the consequent onset of social in- stability in the countryside.

3. Historical-comparative researchers would agree that all except one of the following describes a challenge they face in their research. Which one is NOT an issue for them.

Some historians believe that histo- ry consists of unique events and can only be represented by narra- tives about these specific events.

4. According to the authors, who could be considered an ethnographer?

sociologists anthropologists histo- rians cinematographers

5. Ethnography is a way of combining and using various methods, both quan- titative and qualitative, and so in a strict sense, it is neither a quantitative method.

False

6. Karen Ho revoalod that bankers often rationalized their own job uncertainty because of market fluctuations.

true

7. Goodwin and Skocpol argue that third world revolutions in the 20th century took place primarity in:

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8. The Challenger Launch decision was used as an example of historical com- parative analysis play a small role in contributing. to job instability for in- vestment bankers.

true or false

9. Understanding the culture of others re- quires:

The revolution against the Shah of Iran.

10. Culture is a shared way of understand- ing the world and taking action within it.

False

11. Which of the following was NOT one of Wolf's case studies?

The revolution against the Shah of Iran.

12. Producing a good ethnography means:

13. For Wolf's Peasant Wars of the Twen- tieth Century, the dependent variable was capitalist penetration of the coun- tryside

14. Ethnographers research from the per- spective of:

15. Mores are formal unconventional prac- tices

16. According to the work of Karl Popper (1963), "falsification" is the basis of all scientific inquiry.

17. Edward Tufte's main conclusion from the study of the Challenger launch de- cision is:

18. Secondary sources are rarely used for historical-comparative analysis.

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19. Environmental justice is an applied form of social autopsy.

20. The authors suggest that the theoreti- cal foundation of the heat wave study included:

21. Social autopsy is synonymous with conspiracy theory.

22. Spatial analvsis may be one compo- nent of a social autopsy.

23. Which of the following is usually NOT a unit of analysis in historical-compara- tive research?

24. Historical-comparative analysis gener- ally employs large sample sizes.

25. Contemporary ethnographers are most likely to study:

26. Anderson's "dependent variable" In Imagined Communities is:

27. Eric Wolf in Peasant Wars of the twen- tieth Century uses a key concept to link apparently very different events. The concept is

28. A content analysis is one form of analy- sis that may be used in social autopsy types of studies

29. performing ethnography successfully at the professional level demands a combination of

30.

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In the 1900s, journalism spawned sub- fields bearing a striking resemblance to ethnography, particularly a branch that came to be known as "Old journalism"

31. greg scott's (2009) ethnographic the family at 1312 focuses on a real kinship system developed and perpetuated by crack smokers, prostitutes, and drug dealers

32. Today, ethnographers come from the background of

33. Literally, "ethnography" means:

34. Charles Perrow's main conclusion from the study of the Challenger launch de- cision is:

35. In addition to analyzing who died dur- ing the heat wave, Klinenberg exam- ined:

36. The components of a social autopsy can include:

37. Interviews are rarely used in social au- topsy.

38. The Buffalo Creek flood:

39. Ethnographers mainly study:

40. "Routinization of deviance" means:

41. The survivors of the Buffalo Creek flood:

42.

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Vaughan's main conclusion from the study of the Challenger launch deci- sion is:

43. What is Klinenberg's attitude towards the "smart consumer model" of social service delivery?

44. For Wolf's Peasant Wars of the Twenti- eth Century, the independent variable was capitalist penetration of the coun- tryside

45. In the heat wave that Klinenberg stud- ied:

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