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Unit 2 Key Terms
Karten in diesem Stapel (17)
- 1Quantitative DataNumerical data
Favoured by the positivists - 2Qualitative DataWritten data
Favoured by the interpretivist - 3PositivismQuantitative data
Scientifically
Believe people are passive and influenced by their social environment - 4InterpretivismQualitative data
Non scientific
Believe people are active and unpredictable - 5Primary DataCollected first hand
eg. Structured questionnaires and interviews, P.O - 6Secondary DataCollected by someone else
eg. Official statistics, Diaries and letters - 7SampleGroup you are going to study
- 8ObjectivityNo bias
- 9SubjectivityWith a bias
- 10ReliableIf a method can be repeated and the same or similar results are obtained
- 11VerifiableIf a method can be checked
- 12VerstehenIf a method can see behaviour from the persons empathetic point of view
- 13Participant ObservationA method where the researcher joins the group they are studying
- 14ValidityResearch which is a true picture of what they are studying
- 15UnstructuredA method whereby the researcher asks the question of a person in a discursive way to gain in depth information
- 16RepresentativeA typical cross section of a study
- 17MethodologyAn approach to research
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- Key Terms for Unit 2 Sociology
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