Lek decides to study social relationships in a midwestern gang, and she begins deciding which specific research questions to pursue. One line of inquiry she considers is whether the group's age and gender characteristics affect the longevity of friendships in the gang. The second line of inquiry would involve an exploration of the most important components of the gang's social relationships, as reported in detail by the respondents' own stories. The first of these lines of inquiry comes from the ___.

Positivist approach

Explanation: Positivism as a method or approach uses to explain societial study based on the specific scientific evidence used e.g research experiments, statistics e.t.c, to enlighten everyone on the operations of the society.positivist believes with no reasonable doubt that the use of scientific knowledge,techniques, progress, tools will definitely help to drastically reduce or eliminate human various problems.common features of a positivist is that they are often realistic,objectivist and experimental people.

i do believe that the correct answer is   (technical reasoning); luck

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