1. Please determine whether the following examples display longitudinal, cross-sectional or case study research designs.
A) Ruth Milkman investigated a particular GM factory in Linden, New Jersey. Over the course of almost a decade, she conducted multiple in-depth interviews with workers and managerial staff, examined the plants output, employment and wage-rate records as well as the history and actions of the local union representing workers.
B) Juan Battle conducted a large-scale survey of LGBT people of color in 2011. He did this by sending teams of research assistants to more than 25 LGBT Pride festivals across the country where they set up information tables and recruited participants to take the 10-minute survey.
C) Paul Attewell surveyed 400 individuals from the graduating class of SUNY Old Westbury in 1998, asking them questions about US politics, their sense of the future and whether they felt the American Dream was attainable or not,6 years later, he surveyed the same 400 individuals, asking them the very same questions as before.
2.For what purposes of research (exploratory, descriptive or explanatory) are each of the following research designs most appropriate?
A) Cross-sectional
B) Longitudinal
C) Case-study
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