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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20 nodesOBSERVATIONS types of observations · participant observations
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36 nodesB671 ETHICAL FACTORS · SAMPLING · RESEARCH DESIGNS
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42 nodesDISADVANTAGES OF USING PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION What type of method? · Who prefers to use it? · Advantages · Type of data they hop... · Covert ethical issues · Covert practical issues
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7 nodesTypes of observation There are many types ... · In sociology, most ob...
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26 nodesSuicide JD Douglas · Jacobs (1967) · Atkinson (1971) · Taylor (1990)
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20 nodesMethods Observations · Sampling
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25 nodesValues and Ethics Value free sociology · Value laden sociology · Committed Sociology
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25 nodesValues and Ethics Value free sociology · Value laden sociology · Committed Sociology
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60 nodesResearch Methods (Sociology) Practical issues · Ethical issues · Theoretical issues · Research Methods · Sampling Methods · Theory
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29 nodessecondary sources and crime Ethical issues · Representativeness an... · validity · practical issues · Media documents · Documents can be used...
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36 nodesThe process of research FORMULATING AN AIM/HY... · OPERATIONALISING CONC... · PILOT STUDY · SAMPLES AND SAMPLING · THE SAMPLING FRAME · SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
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32 nodesStatistics info that is already ... · Practicality · Ethics · Representativeness · Reliability · Validity : The 'Dark ...
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30 nodesInterviews Unstructured: like a ... · Structured: spoken qu...
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16 nodesResearching Crime Survey · Experiments · Observation · Existing data · Secondary Data
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97 nodesResearch methods Interviews · Questionnaires · Experiments · Official statistics · Observation
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38 nodesWays of researching crime Survey · Experiments · Observation ( field r... · Existing data · Self report studies
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64 nodesOfficial Statistics Practical · Theoretical
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18 nodesSurveys Uses · Generalisability · Carrying out a survey · Sampling Methods
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32 nodesRM : ISSUES ethical - morality of... · practical - difficult... · theoretical - standpo...
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36 nodesTypes of methods questionnaires · statistics · observations
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21 nodesTheory consolidation Feminism · Realism · Interpretivism · Positivism
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40 nodesResearch methods surveys · ethnographic methods · secondary data
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13 nodesPrimary and Secondary Data PRIMARY DATA · SECONDARY DATA
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7 nodesThe Positivist criticisms of Interpretivist research The research will be ... · Research in unsystema... · A rapport is built up... · The qualitative data ... · It isn't possible to ... · Ethnography is critic...
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45 nodesRelationship between Theory and Methods Functionalism and Mar... · Positivist approach · Interactionism and Sy... · Interpretivist Approach · Feminism · Postmodernism
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45 nodesRelationship between Theory and Methods Functionalism and Mar... · Positivist approach · Interactionism and Sy... · Interpretivist Approach · Feminism · Postmodernism
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22 nodesParticipant Observation What is participant o... · Theoretical considera... · Practical Considerations · Ethical Considerations · Advantages and Disadv...
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25 nodesOfficial statistics Practical · Ethical · Theoretical
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36 nodesResearch Methods Experiments · Questionnaires · Interviews · Observation · Official Statistics · Secondary Documents
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49 nodesSociological Research Methods Research Methods · Experiments · Social Surveys
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15 nodesDOCUMENTS STRENGTHS · WEAKNESSESS · From a practical poin... · Personal documents al... · Personal documents te... · HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ...
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19 nodesDocuments -Interpretivists -qua... · A 'document' is any t... · Either public which y... · Interpretivists favou... · Practical · Validity
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32 nodesResearch Methods positivism · interpretism · quantitave data colle... · key concepts · data collection · methods
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5 nodesPOSTMODERN METHODOLOGY pomo challenge entrie... · Lyotard all knowledge... · critics argue pomo to... · Ferrell suggests crim...
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25 nodesResearch methods key concepts Research concepts · General key concepts · Positivism/ quantitat...
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25 nodesUnstructured Interviews Practical · Ethical · Theoretical
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24 nodesNon-Official statistics Practical · Ethical · Theoretical
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27 nodesSociology and Science 5 features of science · Funding and Prestige · Comte · Durkheim · Popper · Kuhn
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27 nodesSociology and Science 5 features of science · Funding and Prestige · Comte · Durkheim · Popper · Kuhn
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22 nodesLONGITUDINAL STUDIES CHARACTERISTICS · EXAMPLES · ADVANTAGES · DISADVANTAGES