Please choose one of the following prompts and, considering what you have learned from your text and/or other relevant course materials, respond to it in at least one full paragraph of 200-400 words.
Online students must additionally respond to the submissions of at least two other students in no less than 100 words each.

If you were a sociologist, would you prefer to conduct quantitative or qualitative research? Why?
Do you think qualitative methods are “scientific”? Why or why not?
Discuss a social question that interests you. How would you go about studying it? What theoretical and methodological perspectives would be most relevant?