Exam 12: Using Available Data

Martinez and Lee used available data to study the connections between violent crime and immigrants in Miami.Included in this available data were "homicide logs,",and decennial census reports.What do they think are the advantages of using this methodology? What are the disadvantages? What other approach might have been successful?

Define and provide an example of physical traces,erosion measures,and accretion measures.

_____data is collected by the researcher and_____data is collected by someone other than the researcher.

The unit of analysis used in the United Nations Demographic Yearbook and the International Labor Office is the

Letters,emails,Twitter feeds,and autobiographies are included in

What has been the dominant mode of social science research in the twentieth century?

The unit of analysis for studies based on secondary analysis is almost always