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Methods
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Methods
Types of data
- Primary data - collected by sociologist for purpose of research
- Experiments
- Participant observation
- Secondary data - collected by someone else for their own purpose
- Official statistics
- Documents
- Quantitative - information in numerical form.
- Qualitative - information, usually expressed in words, about people's thoughts, feelings, motivations etc.
- Primary data - collected by sociologist for purpose of research
Factors influencing choice
- Practical issues
- Time and money
- Requirements of funding bodies
- Personal skills and characteristics
- Subject matter
- Ethical issuces
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality and privacy
- Effects on research participants
- Vulnerable groups
- Covert research
- Theoretical
- Validity
- Reliability
- Representativeness
- Practical issues
Positivism - the belief that society is made up of 'social facts' that can be studied scientifically to discover laws of cause and effect.
Interpretivism - Focuses on how we construct our social worlds through the meanings we create and attach to events, actions and situations.
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- A-Level Sociology - Unit 2 Mind Map on Methods, created by Jasmine Clark on 20/05/2015.
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