If, on a questionnaire, a respondent is asked "what do you feel is the most important crime problem facing the police in your city today? ", they are being asked what type of question?

Is british society today better than it was 400 years ago?

What is the role of institutions in society - do they perform positive functions, or simply work in the interests of the powerful and against the powerless? (a related question here is why do our life chances vary by class, gender and ethnicity)

According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with human subjects? a. a researcher uses the customs office’s passenger lists for ships bringing immigrants to the us between 1820-1845 to track the numbers of immigrants from certain ethnic groups. b. a researcher conducts a linguistic study of comments posted on a local public blog. c. a developmental psychologist videotapes interactions between groups of toddlers and their care givers to determine which intervention methods most effectively manage aggression. d. a researcher asks the director of a local free clinic about the number of patients in the last two years with newly diagnosed hiv/aids.