Studying Society

Studying Society

1. Theories

   • Consensus
     • Feminist
     • Functionalist
   • Conflict
     • Marxist
   • Social class

2. Sampling

   • Random
     • Names out of a Hat
   • Stratisfied
     • Mirror the distribution
   • Systematic
     • Using a frame
   • Quota
     • Age,gender, ethnicity
   • Snowball
     • It gets bigger
   • Opportunistic
     • Giving questions to anyone

3. Social process

   • Norms and values
   • Secondary
     • Relationships with individuals
   • Primary
     • Family
     • Childhood
   • Social control
     • Learning rules threw your family,culture

4. Qualitative methods

   • Written up
   • Methods
     • Open questionnaire
     • Unstructured interview
     • Observation
   • Listening to clips,texts and what they've heard then writing it up

5. Quantitive methods

   • Presented as numbers
   • Analysed by statistical methods
   • Trends being highlighted
   • Questionnaires
   • Structured interviews

6. other

   • testing it out
   • questionaire
   • ethical consideration

7. social structure

   • different institutions
     • family
     • media
     • education
   • keeps society together