Question

In her research for The Second Shift, Arlie Hochschild interviewed married couples to find out how they dealt with changing family roles as more women entered the workforce. What advantages came from her decision to use interviews as a research method?

A. It ensured that the respondents were always honest and forthcoming about their family lives and marital roles.
B. It allowed her to gather direct quotations and construct an intimate portrait of married couples.
C. It allowed for a large group of people to be included in the study.
D. It created both a control group and an experimental group and allowed Hochschild to compare them.

Answer 1

B. It allowed her to gather direct quotations and construct an intimate portrait of married couples.

Step-by-step explanation:

When data is collected through direct interview, the researchers could subtract both verbal and non-verbal information that conveyed by the subjects (in this case, they can see the expression and body languages displayed by the married couple.

This make the direct quotation extracted from the subject construct an intimate portrait that felt more relocatable by whoever read the final conclusion of the researches