A Graduate Student States, in a Master's Thesis, That "Despite

A graduate student states, in a master's thesis, that "despite public awareness programs to educate the public about the safety of pediatric immunizations, a staunch core of highly educated and well-informed parents continues to attribute the rise in childhood autism to vaccination. Because of this, recent efforts have been brought to bear in the qualitative arena, attempting to identify and isolate factoids and half-truths that perpetuate the myth. Nonetheless, mostly because belief structures appear bound by geography, not enough is known about reasons that some clusters of parents postpone or avoid vaccination." The quotation is an example of a(n) ___________ and appears in the ____________ section of the research report.

A) objective; Methods
B) purpose statement; Introduction
C) problem statement; Introduction
D) literature review; Results