Sociology- key terms

Question	Answer
Representative	A sample which represents the whole of society
Generalisable	Able to represent society in general
Reliable	Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.
Valid	Another word for accurate
Sample	A small part of the population that represents the whole of the target population
Cross-sectional	The results of the survey are applicable to the whole population
Snowball sample	A person finding a person from an obscure group gaining their trust and finding overs of the group.
Stratified sample	A Sample which is random and representative to target population
Systematic sample	Going through the sampling frame and choosing every nth number
Random sample	Picked out of a hat even chance of getting picked

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	Created by Quinlan Gillespie over 6 years ago