Question

The anthropologist Ruth Behar traveled to San Luis Potosí to learn more about the everyday lives of Mexican women. Instead, she ended up conducting one very long, intensive interview with a woman named Esperanza and took more than a year to collect her interview data. Which DISADVANTAGE of the interview methodology does her research highlight?
a. respondents are not always forthcoming or truthful.
b. interviews generally lack qualitative data that might better capture social reality.
c. interviews sometimes distance the researcher from the messy realities of the social world.
d. face-to-face interviewing is time-consuming.

Answer 1

a. respondents are not always forthcoming or truthful

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