Research Methods mind maps
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This GoConqr page gathers over 500 community-made Research Methods mind maps, covering questionnaires, interviews, observation and sociological theory. They support school students, university students and professional candidates studying research methods, as well as teachers looking for material. The collection spans secondary and university-level study. Pick a map and explore a method.
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- Sociology and Science31
- Sociological Theory and Research67
- Choosing a Research Method41
- Values and Ethics in Research19
- Reliability and Validity5
- Types of Research Data26
- Sampling Methods18
- Questionnaires and Surveys45
- Interviews56
- Observation and Ethnography52
- Experiments30
- Secondary Data and Content Analysis46
- Discourse and Conversation Analysis6
- Researching Education25
- Researching Crime, Deviance and Suicide17
Mind maps
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91 nodesmethods - research methods questionares · interviews · statistical data · content analysis · obervations · ethnography
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21 nodesResearch Design Social surveys give q... · Before you can start ... · Representaitve Sampling · Non representative sa...
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21 nodesKey issues in research and methods Theoretical issues af... · Positivits use reliab... · Interpretevists use v... · Practical issues also...
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71 nodesTOWNSEND PART 3 From concepts to indi... · From theory to measur... · How did Townsend iden... · Evaluating measures · De Vaus 2002: What is... · De Vaus 2002: What wi...
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18 nodesVALUE FREEDOM for many sociologists... · VALUE FREE SOCIOLOGY ... · SOCIOLOGY IS INEVITAB... · SOCIOLOGY SHOULD BE C...
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22 nodesResearch Design Research Questions gi... · Hypitheses are statme... · Term like "deomocracy... · Traingulation is wher... · A poilot study is a s...
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36 nodesUnstructured interviews Advantages · Disadvantage
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52 nodesResearch Methods: EXPERIMENTS LAB EXPERIMENTS · FIELD EXPERIMENTS
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37 nodesQUANTITATIVE - field experiments and questionnaires field experiments · questionnaires
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81 nodesInterviews: Positives and Negatives Structured Interviews · Unstructured Interviews
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25 nodesTypes of interviews Questionnaries · Structured interviews · Semi structured inter... · Unstructured interviwes · Group interviwes · Focus groups
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38 nodesOFFICIAL STATISTICS Official statistics a... · PRACTICAL · ETHICAL · THEORETICAL · An example of officia...
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38 nodesOFFICIAL STATISTICS Official statistics a... · PRACTICAL · ETHICAL · THEORETICAL · An example of officia...
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13 nodesAdvantages of questionnaires Practical advantages · Reliability · Hypothesis testing · Detachment and object... · Ethical issues · Representativeness
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27 nodesSociological Theory and Methods classical sociologist... · Value free research i... · can research be value...
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27 nodesSociological Theory and Methods classical sociologist... · Value free research i... · can research be value...
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27 nodesTheory and Methods Is Sociology a science?
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29 nodesKey Issues Positivism - looks at... · Interpretivism - look... · Practical Issues · Ethical Issues
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26 nodesapproaches to sociological research POSITIVIST · interpretivism · feminist methodogy · realist methodolo
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24 nodesPostal Questionnaires and their use in Sociological Research_1 Postal questionnaires... · THEORETICAL · PRACTICAL · ETHICAL
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112 nodesResearch Methods Interviews · Official Statistics · Documents · Longitudinal Study · Case/Community Studies · Life Histories
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9 nodesAdvantages of participant observation Validity · Insight · Flexibility · Practical advantages
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38 nodesinterviewes STRUCTURED: interview... · UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIE... · INFLEXABILITY · SEMI STRUCTURED : lie... · GROUP INTERVIEWS : wi...
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32 nodesDOCUMENTS - Personal, Public, Historical Personal, public and ... · These can be any type... · Authenticity · Credibility · Representativeness · Meaning
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28 nodesInfluences on the choice of research topic and method Practical and Ethical... · Theoretical issues · Choice of topic and r... · Validity · Reliability · Operisationalising co...
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43 nodesExperiments Laboratory · Field
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118 nodesResearch methods Types of data · Factors affecting cho... · Experiments · Questionnaires · Interviews
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8 nodesField experiments A field experiment ha... · Unlike other experime... · Durkheim’s study of s...
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32 nodesExperiments Experiments let you f... · There are two kinds o... · Stregths of lab exper... · Strenegths of field e... · When people know they...
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35 nodesQUANTITATIVE - STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS Structured · unstructured · semi-structured · practical issues · theoretical issues
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43 nodesQUALITATIVE methods PARICIPANT OBERVATION non-participant obser... · participant observation · overt observation · covert observation · getting in · staying in
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24 nodesUnstructured Interviews An unstructured inter... · PRACTICAL · ETHICAL · THEORETICAL
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47 nodesStructured interviews Theories · Basics · Links to other topics · Advantages · Disadvantages
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21 nodesSociology + Science Positivists – methods... · Interpretivism · Verstehen + qualitati...
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26 nodesInterviews There are two types o... · 1) An interview is a ... · Structured interviews... · Unstructured intervie...
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49 nodesQuestionnaires and Interviews Questionnaires give m... · In an interview you h...
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26 nodesOfficial Statistics (MIC) official statistics r... · The police recorded c... · Only about 40% of cri... · Problems with compari... · Interpretivists regar... · Victim Surveys
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45 nodesExperiments and Observations Causality - experimen... · Lab experiments - con... · Field Experiments - t... · Observation - the bri...
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37 nodesQUANTITATIVE - OFFICIAL STATISTICS produced by the gover... · registration · offical surveys · administrative records · practical advantages · practical disadvantages
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43 nodesObservations Covert · Overt · Participant · DISADVANTAGES OF PART... · Interactionists favou... · METHODS IN CONTEXT