research methods- sociologists

Question 1

Willis

Answer 1

group interview with w/c boys who didn’t accept capitalist brainwashing

Question 2

Willmott & Young

Answer 2

structured interviews on extended families in London where asked few simple questions and was quick, asked 987 to participate and only 54 refused

Question 3

Dobash & Dobash

Answer 3

unstructured interviews on women been through DV where rapport established so they more comfortable

Question 4

Labov

Answer 4

unstructured interviews on black boys who tongue tied and linguistically deprived but when they talked to informally felt more comfortable

Question 5

Oakley

Answer 5

hard to stay detached in interview about motherhood becoz is herself a mother

Question 6

Rich

Answer 6

kids in interviews want to impress adults especially in gender, ethnicity, class imbalance

Question 7

Milgram

Answer 7

electric shocks lab experiment to study obedience

Question 8

Rosenhan

Answer 8

psych ward field experiment to study care of patients in mental hospital

Question 9

Humphrey

Answer 9

tearoom trades covert participant observation

Question 10

Punch

Answer 10

police officers only showed him what they wanted him to see in participant overt observation

Question 11

Tuckett

Answer 11

post grad soc student admitted to hospital so did participant observation

Question 12

Mayo

Answer 12

working conditions field experiment looking at HE

Question 13

Zimbardo

Answer 13

in prisons those pretending actually became very controlling

Question 14

Durkheim

Answer 14

found protestants more likely to commit suicide becoz less social integration

Question 15

Connor & Dewson

Answer 15

sent out 4000 questionnaires to uni students so could be generalised

Question 16

Cicourel

Answer 16

questionnaires too detached to get full valid picture

Question 17

Schofield

Answer 17

teenage girl said she “not yet” a virgin LOLLLLLL

Question 18

Hite

Answer 18

1000 questionnaires on love and violence but only 4.5% response rate showing not a lot of ppl want to talk ab these topics

Question 19

Tarki

Answer 19

made up country Piresa and found people not even tolerate made up place

Question 20

Kinsey

Answer 20

asked quickfire questions to make people tell truth about sexuality

Question 21

Becker

Answer 21

played dumb asking questions about teacher labelling in school

Question 22

Whyte

Answer 22

semi overt observation of street corner society which took 4 years to complete

Question 23

Patrick

Answer 23

got found out in covert participant observation when did up middle button on jacket and paid for suit in cash

Question 24

Ditton

Answer 24

had to use toilet to record data on theft amongst bread delivery men

Question 25

Yablonsky

Answer 25

participant observation often only way of studying deviant groups

Question 26

Downes & Rock

Answer 26

characteristics can affect involvement in participant observations

Question 27

Atkinson

Answer 27

qualitative secondary source study shows suicide rates not true reflection but social construct

Question 28

Thomas & Znaniecki

Answer 28

personal documents showing meanings people gave to their migration, may have lied about how good life in USA was to justify decision

Question 29

Black Report

Answer 29

public report on health inequalities

Question 30

Laslett

Answer 30

parish records on pre industrial family

Question 31

Aries

Answer 31

photographs from middle ages vs now

Question 32

Scott

Answer 32

authenticity, credibility, representativeness

Question 33

Hitler

Answer 33

diaries deemed authentic by historians but then were found out to be complete forgery