Key terms topic 1

Question 1

Primary data

Answer 1

Data that you have collected yourself

Question 2

Secondary data

Answer 2

Data that is already available as it’s been done by someone else beforehand

Question 3

Positivist

Answer 3

They like quantitative data, want to seek patterns of behaviour and see sociology as a science.Like data given in graphs and they like experiments

Question 4

Interpretivists

Answer 4

Prefer qualitative data, don’t see sociology as a science,Like interviews,

Question 5

Quantities data

Answer 5

Numerical data e.g. statistics

Question 6

Qualitative data

Answer 6

Allows people to discuss opinions and feelings. e.g. what it feels like for someone to get divorced

Question 7

Validity

Answer 7

How truthful is your data to society

Question 8

Reliability

Answer 8

How easy is it to repeat the test and get the same results

Question 9

Sampling

Answer 9

A group of people being studied that represent the wider population

Question 10

Stratified sampling

Answer 10

Groups are devised multiple times

Question 11

quasi - random sampling

Answer 11

Choosing the nth person out of a list

Question 12

Random sampling

Answer 12

selecting people randomly using a lottery method

Question 13

Ethical issues -

Answer 13

informed consent, confidentiality,harm to participants,vulnerable groups,covert research

Question 14

Representativeness

Answer 14

How much your results represent wider society

Question 15

Objective

Answer 15

When data is statistics (facts)

Question 16

Subjective

Answer 16

Opinions - can be a discussion

Question 17

Official statistics

Answer 17

Factual stats