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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19 nodesSociology basics Part A- investigating...
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49 nodesInterviews Unstructured interviews · Group interviews · Semi-structured inter... · Roger Gomm
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14 nodesCase Studies What are they? · Examples · Life Histories · Strengths · Weaknesses
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11 nodesPrimary and Secondary Data and Data Sources Primary Data · Secondary Data · Both of these forms o...
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19 nodesinterpretivism Max Weber · verstehen · reasearch methods · unstructured intervie... · participant observati... · non participant obser...
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45 nodesUntitled The Relationship Betw...
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25 nodesLaboratory Experiments and alternatives Lab experiments · Field experiments · The comparitive method
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10 nodesResearch methods Practical Issues · Ethical Issues
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25 nodescomparing overt and covert observation Covert participate ob... · Overt Participation
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23 nodesSociology and Social Policy Giddens · Marxists · Postmodernist view · Politics and Social P...
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24 nodesEXPERIMENTS Hypothesis · An experiment is usua... · Independent variable · Dependent variable · Lababtory Experiments · Comparitive Experiiments
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24 nodesCase studies Practical · Ethical · Theoretical
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44 nodesMethods in Context - Research in an education setting Positivists · Interpretivists · Practical · Theoretical · Ethical
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17 nodesSociology: Experiments Lab experiments · Field experiments · Comparative experiments
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25 nodesSocial interaction and validity Interviewer bias · Artificiality · Status and power ineq... · Cultural differences · Socially desirability... · Ethical issues
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18 nodesDurkheim, Positivism and Suicide SUICIDE RATES AS SOCI... · TYPOLOGY
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13 nodesUnstructured interviews What are they? · Advantages
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60 nodesMethods In Context Studying children · Studying parents · Studying in classrooms · Studying in schools · PERVERT · Positivist or interpr...
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15 nodesChoose Topic Determine aim/hypothesis · Sociologists use surv...
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34 nodesSociological research Methods Mixed methods or tria... · Theoretical and ethic... · Secondary data · What does sociologica...
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24 nodesUnstructured Interviews Practical issues · Theoretical issues
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37 nodesEnter text here High validity · Flexability · Understanding · Exploring Different T... · Natural · Ethical issues
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28 nodesMethods Types of data · Factors influencing c... · Positivism - the beli... · Interpretivism - Focu...
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17 nodesResearching Pupils Disadvantage · Advantage
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16 nodes- Objectivity & Relativism Relativism · Postmodernism
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40 nodesSociology Investigating Society · Primary data · Research/Studies · Secondary Data · Sample
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3 nodesSociology- using surveys The main means of col... · There are always ques...
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27 nodesStructured Interviews Practical issues · Theoretical issues
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28 nodesINTERVIEWS Structured Interviews · Semi Structured · Unstructured Interiews · LIMITATIONS OF ALL
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16 nodesResearch Methods Positivism, interpret... · Key issues in social ... · Primary and secondary...
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18 nodesDocuments Qualitative Data · Public Documents · Personal Documents · Historical Documents · Scott · Hey
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18 nodesOvert Participant Observation Whyte joined a street... · Practical Issues · Ethical Issues · Theoretical · Cicourel: study juven... · The Police: isolated ...
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27 nodesSociology- Unit 2 Crime & Devience · Mass Media · Power · Social Inequality
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13 nodesLongitudinal Studies What are they? · Strengths · Weaknesses
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47 nodesStructured Interviews Practical · Ethical · Theoretical
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17 nodesPOSITIVISM (neaten) Scientific approach · An approach to resear... · Large scale (macro) a... · Attempts to establish... · Believe that there is... · Prefers quantitative ...
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14 nodesSAMPLING Random Sampling · Systematic Sampling · Opportunity Sampling · Volunteer Sampling · Stratified Sampling
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9 nodesPositivism (sociology) Positive research on ... · Examples of positivis... · The feelings, emotion... · Durkheim said the aim... · They believe social i... · Durkheim, a positivit...
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9 nodesSociology and science Karl Popper
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13 nodesParticipant Observation Disadvantages Reliability · Practical · Ethical · Representativeness