choosing a research method

choosing a research method

1. PRIMARY DATA

   • info collected by sociologists themselves for their own purposes
   • social surveys
   • participant observation
   • experiments

2. SECONDARY DATA

   • official statistics
   • documents
   • info collected by someone else which someone else can use

3. QUANTITATIVE DATA

   • info in numerical form- official statistics of girls gaining 5+ GCSE's

4. QUALITATIVE DATA

   • gives a 'feel' for what something is like
   • what it FEELS like to gain GCSE's