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Chapter 5: Sociological research methods
- Qualitative methods
- Why use?
- Useful for illegal for deviant activities
- Gives real insight
- Useful for illegal for deviant activities
- Problems of qualitative methods
- Bias
- Generalisability
- Reliability
- Influence on group being studied
- Types of observational method
- Participant
- Non - Participant
- Covert/Overt?
- Participant
- Bias
- Why use?
- Mixed Methods or triangulation
- Sociologists often use two
or more approaches
- Sociologists often use two
or more approaches
- Theoretical and ethical issues
- How theoretical issues influence research
- suggest one research
topic rather than another
- Influence research
method choosen
- Influence interpretation of
research findings
- suggest one research
topic rather than another
- How ethical issues influence research
- Influence choice
of research topic
- Ask researcher to
consider the effects of
the research
- Influence who is chosen
to be researched
- Raise issue of whether
researcher may act immorally
or illegally during research
- Influence choice
of research topic
- How theoretical issues influence research
- Secondary Data
- Why use?
- Allows historical research
- Good where 'primary methods' (surveys,
participants, observation, etc.) not possible
- Allows historical research
- Types of secondary data
- Previous research
- Official publications
- Diaries and letters
- Novels and fiction
- Oral and family history
- The media
- Previous research
- Problems of secondary data
- Inaccuracy or bias in original source
- Censorship
- Inaccuracy or bias in original source
- Why use?
- What does sociological research do?
- Gathers data
- Primary
- Secondary
- Primary
- Makes correlations
- Suggests/confirms correlations
- Gathers data
- Quantitative methods
- Ways of asking questions
- Interviews
- Questionnaires
- Interviews
- Why Use?
- Allows use of statistical test
- Less bias
- Good overview of society
- Allows use of statistical test
- Problems of quantitative methods
- fails to get 'lived experience'
- Validity
- Reliability
- Validity
- fails to get 'lived experience'
- Types of quantitative method
- Case studies
- Comparative research
- Experiments
- Survey
- Cross - Sectional
- Longitudinal
- Cross - Sectional
- Case studies
- Ways of asking questions
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