gillies and charles Flashcards
Val Gillies
wanted to see how class structure can be part of the daily process of raising children. To collect qualitative data the research researchers sampled 25 mothers and 11 fathers from 27 households across the UK. They participated in semi structured, in depth interviews.
Nicola Charles
Administrated a a questionnaire to a sample of 1,000 households in Swansea and was based on an original survey from 1962 and provided quantitative data. Aimed to understand the effects of social change on intimate and kin relationships and to look at the importance of kinship in providing social support and a sense of identity. This study compared its findings with those from an original 1962 survey by Rosser and Harris.