Sociology

Sociology

1. Investigating Society

   • Time and cost effective?
     • Longitudunal
   • Morally right?

2. Primary data

   • Observation
     • Covert
     • Overt
     • Participant
     • Non-participant
   • Interviews
     • Structured
     • Semi-structured
     • Unstructured
   • Questionnaires
     • Open/Closed questions

3. Research/Studies

   • 1)Decide on what you want to study
     • 2) Secondary Research
       • 3)Set yourself 3 aims-What you are able to do.
         • 4) Hypothesis
           • 5)Primary Research
             • 6)Find your sample
               • 7) Pilot study-A mini investigation to see if your study is worth doing(time and cost effective)
                 • 8)Ethical issues
                   • 9) Study
                     • 10) Analyse
                       • 11) Conclude and Evaluate

4. Secondary Data

   • Qualitative
     • Opinions, thought, diaries, media, aricles, documents, anything in written form
   • Quantitative
     • Statistics, police website, birth rates, divorse rates, unemployement, crime rates, death rates, Census, unofficial statistics

5. Sample

   • Cross Section: A smaller section/generalisation of a whole population
     • Census
   • Snowball
   • Stratified
   • Random