The Anthropologist Ruth Behar Traveled to San Luis Potosí to Learn

The anthropologist Ruth Behar traveled to San Luis Potosí to learn more about the everyday lives of Mexican women. Instead, she ended up conducting one very long, very intensive interview with a woman named Esperanza and wrote a book based upon more than a year of interview data. Which disadvantage of the interview methodology does this book highlight?

A) Face-to-face interviewing is time consuming, and interviews are rarely used with large numbers of people. Thus, their representativeness is sometimes questionable.
B) Respondents are not always forthcoming or truthful. Sometimes they are difficult to talk to, and at other times they may try too hard to be helpful.
C) Interviews generally lack qualitative data that might better capture the social reality the researcher wishes to examine.
D) Interviews, although able to describe messages inherent in the media, do not illuminate how such messages are interpreted.
E) Interviews sometimes distance the researcher from the messy realities of the social world.