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What is primary data?

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Collected first hand by sociologists

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What is secondary data?

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Information used by sociologists that has been collected by someone else

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What is quantitive data?

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Information in numerical form

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What is qualitative data?

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Information in a written form goes more in depth

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What are the 3 factors that influence choice of methods?

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Practical
Ethical
Theoretical

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What are practical factors?

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Time and money
Funding bodies
Personal skills
Gaining access
Subject matter
Opportunity

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What are ethical factors?

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Informed consent
Confidentiality
Participants
Vulnerable groups
Covert research

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What are theoretical factors?

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Validity
Reliability
Representation

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What are positivists and their characteristics?

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‘the scientists of sociology’
Scientific
Objective
Large scale
Reliability
Trends/patterns
Representative
Quantitative

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What are interoretivism and their characteristics?

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‘the investigation journalists of sociology’
Non-scientific approach
Subjective
Validity
Verstehen
Qualitative

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What are the 8 primary methods?

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Questionnaires
Laboratory
Field experiments
Structured interviews
Unstructured interviews
Group interviews
Participant observation
Non-participant observation

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What are the 4 secondary methods?

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Official statistics
Documents
Content analysis
Sampling

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What are the 4 ways questionnaires happen?

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Telephone
Email
Post
Face to face

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What is the study for questionnaires?

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Census- Structured postal questionnaires sent by the government every 10 years to find out about the population and there is a legal requirement for each household to do it
Asks about income age and religion

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What is a laboratory experiment?

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A test set in an artificial setting

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What is a study for laboratory experiment?

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Milgram- Seeing if people would harm others when told to do so by a higher authority by increasing levels of electric shocks

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What are field experiments?

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Set in a real life setting

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What is a study for field experiments?

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Rosenthal and Jacobson- IQ tested pupils and told some that they were spurters and these made the most progress as the teachers labelled them positively

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What are structured interviews?

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A set of standardised questions

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What is a study for structured interviews?

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Young and Willmott- Used to research extended families in east London with questions asked with limited range and took between 10-30 mins

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What are unstructured interviews?

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Set of unstandardised questions

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What is rapport?

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Establishing a good relationship between interviewers or researcher and their subjects

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What is verstehen?

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Gaining empathy and understanding through their research

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What is ‘going native’?

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Becoming and relating to a group that is being researched

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What is the Hawthorne effect or social desirability?

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Making your answers desirable to the researcher or acting like you think the researcher wants

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What is a study for unstructured interviews?

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Dobash and Dobash- Used statistics from police court records to find information on domestic violence victims which took 8 hours because they were in depth and found that marriage legitimates violence against women and men having authority

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What is the study for group interviews?

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Willis-Wanted to know what impact their WC backgrounds had on educational progress and encouraged respondents to talk

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What is peer group pressure?

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Participants may change their answers in order to fit in with the group

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What does covert mean?

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Where the participants do now know about the research- undercover

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What does overt mean?

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Where the participants do know about the research- researcher open about it

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What is the study for covert participant observations?

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Humphreys- Men who participated in sexual activity in public and asked to take part in market research and found that 14% were secretly gay and other in heterosexual relationships who wanted secret sex

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What is the study for overt participant observations?

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Barker- studied a controversial religious sect so attended meetings workshops and activities and found no evidence of brainwashing

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What is the study for overt non-participant observation?

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Willis

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What are official statistics?

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Secondary source of data produced by the government

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What is the study for official statistics?

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Durkheim- studied suicide and compared suicide rates based on marital status, children, area and gender

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What is a personal document?

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Written by individual for own purposes

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What is a public document?

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Accessible to public

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What is a historical document?

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Personal/ personal documents produced in the past

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What is the study for documents?

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Anne Frank- Deep insight into how people were treated during the holocaust

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What is the study for content analysis?

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Cohen- How the media presented mods and rockers and they exaggerated events

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What is content analysis?

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A tool for researchers to easily determine the presence of certain words, themes or concepts

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What is random sampling?

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Each person has an equal chance of being selected
Rosenthal and Jacobson

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What is stratified random sampling?

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Sorting the individuals into groups by gender or age
Crime survey

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What is volunteer sampling?

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Individuals come forward to take part in the research
Dobash and Dobash

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What is opportunity sampling?

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/participants who are both accessible and willing to take part are targeted
Griffin

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What is snowball sampling?

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Where one participant refers the researcher to another potential participant so the sample gradually gets bigger
Humphreys

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