Question

The Yale sociologist Kai Erikson wrote a book called Wayward Puritans in which he drew on court records from colonial Massachusetts to understand deviance in the past. 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. comparative-historical
b. ethnography
c. interviews
d. content analysis
e. surveys

Answer 1

Answer: Option (A)

Explanation:

Comparative historical is referred to as or known as the method or technique of the social science which tends to examines the historical events so as to create the explanations which are considered valid beyond the particular place and time, i.e. done either by the direct evaluation to other such historical events or by reference to present day scenario.