Discussion
What do you call for the subsect of a larger population in social research ?
Answer: B
The subset of a larger population studied in social research is a sample.
Where the whole population (the universe) is too large to study, the researcher selects a part of it, by random or other sampling methods, and draws conclusions about the whole from that part. The part is the sample, and the quality of the conclusions depends on how well it represents the population.
Society and community are social units with their own meaning in sociology, not statistical subsets drawn for study. 'Group of peoples' is an informal description of any collection of persons and does not carry the idea of a part chosen to represent a whole.
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