Social Surveys

Question 1

What is a social survey?

Answer 1

Primary quantitative method that produced quantatitve data

Question 2

What are rhe 4 methods of administrating social surveys?

Answer 2

Face to face
Telephone
Postal
Internet

Question 3

What’s an advantage and disadvantage of using a face to face method?

Answer 3

Researcher can explain things- more valid
Can’t do as many interviews- less representative

Question 4

What’s an advantage and disadvantage of using the telephone method?

Answer 4

Can access different areas- more represtantive
Don’t know who is filling it is- less valid

Question 5

What’s an advantage and disadvantages of using the postal method?

Answer 5

Person doesn’t feel pressured and unlimited time- more valid
People not likely to fill survey through post

Question 6

What’s an advantage and disadvantage of using the internet as a method of administration?

Answer 6

Larger sample size-more representative
Only certain demographic likely to fill out- less representative

Question 7

When constructing a questionnaire, what makes a successful one?

Answer 7

Avoid oversimplification, leading questions, be specific, keep language simple, avoid emotive language, keep it short

Question 8

Weaknesses- what kind of people are less likely to send questionnaires back?

Answer 8

Less educated respondents- not representative

Question 9

Weaknesses- what else can affect response rate?

Answer 9

Subject matter

Question 10

What did Russell’s questionarre reveal about subject matter?

Answer 10

Subject matter can affect response rate, in Russell’s study 19% did not take part in the questionnaire about incest

Question 11

How could response rate be improved?

Answer 11

Financial incentive
Short questionnaires
Repeated contact- 2nd questionnaire
Originated from university

Question 12

What’s does operationalising mean? And what are some examples?

Answer 12

To make Abstract concepts measuersble
Examples- cultural and economic capital

Question 13

How would you operationalise the concept of equality in the family?

Answer 13

What percent of household tasks each person does

Question 14

How would you operationalise the concept of attitudes towards marriage?

Answer 14

Look at divorce rates, percent of people married in church

Question 15

How are questionnaires practical?

Answer 15

They are quick, cheap and easy to quantify

Question 16

How are questionnaires ethical?

Answer 16

Respondents don’t have to answer

Question 17

How are questionnaires reliable?

Answer 17

They are easily repeatable

Question 18

How are questionnaires valid?

Answer 18

If anonymous, people are not scared to tell the truth

Question 19

How are questionnaires representative?

Answer 19

Have a very large sample size

Question 20

What theorists like questionnaires?

Answer 20

Positivists prefer becasue they are scientific

Question 21

How are questionnaires detached?

Answer 21

They have limited personal contact

Question 22

What’s a longitudinal study?

Answer 22

A study that could be done once to a desired group and then again later in time to the same group making questionnaire reliable

Question 23

Why is there no guarantee that questionnaires are valid?

Answer 23

No guarantee people will tell truth L, may give answers that are socially desirable
If closed questions- people may tick what isn’t applicable

Question 24

What was the scrounging piersans study and what did it conclude?

Answer 24

TARKI carrier our survey in 2007, asking about opinion on immigrants from Piresa, which was not a real country
68% people said they should not be lit in the country under any circumstances
This conducted that study was there not valid- people answer aimlessly

Question 25

What is the “screw-you” effect?

Answer 25

People answering questionnaires wrong on purpose

Question 26

What was Shere Hites study?

Answer 26

Study of love and passion and emotional violence, 4.5% response