Question

a field researcher wanted to learn a political organization's pattern of recruitment over time, the researcher might begin by interviewing a fairly recent recruit and ask who introduced that person to the organization. Then the researcher might interview the person named and ask who introduced that person to the political organization. This would be an example of:

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accidental sampling.

systematic sampling.

snowball sampling.

deviant cases sampling.

quota sampling.

Answer 1

This would be an example of **snowball sampling**. In snowball sampling, existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances, creating a chain of participants.