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Journal Article 5.1: Mccormack, M. (2014). Innovative Sampling and Participant Recruitment in Sexuality Research. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(4), 475–481.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. Discuss the snowball sampling methodology.
2. What are the advantages of snowball sampling?
3. What are the limitations of snowball sampling?
4. How does the author sidestep the issues of snowball sampling? Is she successful in accomplishing this goal? How does it affect her research?

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Journal Article 5.2: Mills, J., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., & Holmes, M. (2014). State Body Dissatisfaction and Social Interactions: An Experience Sampling Study. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 38(4), 551–562.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. What is “experience sampling”? How does it work?
2. How does it compare to other forms of sampling such as those outlined in the textbook?
3. What were the findings of the authors? How do you perceive the research methodology to have impacted the results of the study?

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Journal Article 5.3: Bhutta, C. (2012). Not by the Book: Facebook as a Sampling Frame. Sociological Methods & Research, 41, 57–88.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. What are the new opportunities open to researchers with the developing of such broadly used social networking sites?
2. How do these new opportunities within the traditional frame of sampling methodologies?
3. What ethical concerns does this type of research raise?