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Methods
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- 1Methods: methodologies - carry out reseach in order to develope and test theories-STRUCTURALISTS - human social behaviour is largely determined by external structural and cultural forces
- you should adopt a positivistic view (macro) - 2methodologies-INTERACTIONISTS - human social behaviour is largely determined by internal thoughts and feeling
- you should adopt an interpretivistic view - 3Examples of research studiesM savage = aim was to show that class is a powerful force affecting cultural taste and practise
Dobash and Dobash = attempt to describe wife battering in modern society
James Patrick = to understand what it was like to be in a gang in Glasgow - 4M Savage- used a closed question questionnaire ( positivistic ) because it was a large sample size
- not qualitative data
+ statistics are easily analysed and clearer when comparing results - 5Dobash and Dobash- Felt as if there needed to be more evidence on the subject
- Neither qualitative nor quantitative was enough
- they did a pilot study which included interviews with orientating and open ended questions - 6James Patrick- he wanted natural context and made observations of SOCIAL REALITY
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- AS level sociology T+M Flashcards on Methods, created by Ellie chitty on 25/04/2019.
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