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charlotte godson Sociology AS - Level English 27 cards

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  1. 1ExperimentsExperiments
  2. 2Milgram- Lab Experiment.
    - Test obedience to authority.
    - Electric shock experiment.
  3. 3Durkheim- Comparative Method.
    - Study into suicide.
  4. 4Social survey/QuestionnairesSocial survey/Questionnaires
  5. 5Young and Wilmott- Pilot Study.
    - 100 surveys.
    - Iron out any problems.
  6. 6Shere Hite's-Response rate.
    - 100,000 questionnaires sent.
    - 4.5% returned
  7. 7Cicoural- Questionnaires.
    - Lack validity.
    - Don't give a true picture.
    - Only be obtained by using interpretivists methods.
  8. 8Social surveys/InterviewsSocial surveys/Interviews
  9. 9Labov- Unstructured. Rapport.
    - Working with children he adopted different personality.
    - Laid back, informal, sitting on the floor.
    - Better responses.
    - Increase validity.
  10. 10Kinsey- Sex survey.
    - Checked validity.
    - Doing interviews 18 months later.
  11. 11Bell-Pupils may see interviewer as a teacher in disguise.
    - Leads to lack of validity.
  12. 12ObservationsObservations
  13. 13Griffin- Covert Participant Observation.
    - Problems of 'getting-in'.
    - Researched black people but was white.
  14. 14Whyte- Semi Covert Participant Observations.
    - Street corner society.
  15. 15Patrick- Covert Participant Observations.
    - Glasgow Gangs.
  16. 16Humphrey's- Covert Participant Observations.
    - Tea room Trade.
    - Homosexual encounters in public toilets.
  17. 17Flanders system of interaction categories (FIAC)- Not research.
    - System that codes different behaviours in an observation.
    - Makes the observation a lot more structured and objective.
  18. 18Official statisticsOfficial statistics
  19. 19Census Births Deaths Marriages- Whole population.
    - Legally obliged to fill in the census every 10 years.
    - Legal requirement -> likely to be accurate.
  20. 20British Crime Survey- Large sample.
    - Government obtained.
    - Doesn't account for 'dark figure crime'
  21. 21Personal DocumentsPersonal Documents
  22. 22Thomas and Znaniecki- Newspaper articles/court and social work records.
    - Investigate experiments.
    - Polish migrants to USA.
  23. 23Historical DocumentsHistorical Documents
  24. 24Aries- Paintings.
    - Investigate childhood.
  25. 25Laslett- Parish records.
    - Family structure.
  26. 26Life HistoryLife History
  27. 27Mann-Collected.
    - Educational life histories.
    - 60 female.
    - 6th formers

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AS - Level Sociology Flashcards on Research Mathods, created by charlotte godson on 14/04/2016.
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