Sociologists

Question 1

Name 4 sociologists that talk about questionnaires

Answer 1

Hite
Tarki
Schofield
Connor and Dewson

Question 2

What did hite find

Answer 2

Questionnaires - Weakness

4.5 % response rate
Love passion and emotional violence

Question 3

What did Schofield find ?

Answer 3

Questionnaire - weakness

Teens sexual behaviour
misunderstanding questions

“are you a virgin”
“not yet

Question 4

What did Tarki find?

Answer 4

Questionnaire- weakness

asked people in Hungary if they should let people from piersa migrate in
68% said no
piersa is a made up place

Question 5

Name a sociologist who uses structured interviews

Answer 5

Willmott and young

Question 6

What did willmott and young find?

Answer 6

Structured interview- strength

asked 987 people only 54 refused to take part

Question 7

Name 2 sociologists that used unstructured interviews

Answer 7

Dobash and Dobash
Labov

Question 8

What did Dobash and Dobash find?

Answer 8

unstructured interviews- strength

investigated domestic violence
Building a rapport with the individual made them feel more comfortable in sharing

Question 9

What did Labov find?

Answer 9

unstructured interviews - strength

first used formal interviews to look at linguistic skills of black American children. found they became tongue tied and ‘linguistically deprived’
When using unstructured interviews they were more relaxed and competent speakers

Question 10

Who used group interviews

Answer 10

Paul Willis

Question 11

Who used semi-structured interviews ?

Answer 11

Cicourel and kitsuse

Question 12

What did cicourel and kitsuse find ?

Answer 12

Asked follow up questions like “what do you mean”

Question 13

What did Rich say?

Answer 13

Children were likely to change their answers in interviews when being interviewed by an adult

Question 14

What sociologist talk about overt observations ?

Answer 14

Punch

Question 15

What did punch find ?

Answer 15

after he had finished researching police officers in Amsterdam one of them told him that they only showed him what they wanted him to see

Question 16

What sociologists carried out covert observations?

Answer 16

Lord Humphreys tea room trade
Patrick
Ditton

Question 17

What did Patrick find?

Answer 17

Nearly got caught when he bought his suit with cash instead of credit and buttoned his middle button on his blazer instead of the top first. Gang wouldn’t do this

Question 18

What did Ditton find?

Answer 18

studied theft among bread deliverymen but had to take notes in the bathroom . The aroused suspicion

Question 19

Who talks about participant observations ?

Answer 19

Yablonsky
Whyte
Downes and rock

Question 20

What did Yablonsky say?

Answer 20

Participant observations - Strength

sometimes the only way to study deviant groups as they wouldn’t let someone in with a questionnaire as they look like part of the authority

Question 21

What did Whyte find?

Answer 21

Participant observations - weakness (time consuming)

Took 4 years to complete his study
Street corner society

Question 22

What did Downes and Rock find?

Answer 22

Participant observations - weakness - access

personal characteristics can limit the groups people can study as many groups don’t want to be studied this way so they make access difficult

Question 23

Which sociologist talks about documents as a secondary source?

Answer 23

Thomas and Znaniecki
Aries

Question 24

What did Thomas and Znanieki find?

Answer 24

People may lie on their letters home to families saying how good the USA is to justify them immigrating there

Question 25

What did Connor and Dewson find?

Answer 25

Questionnaires -

Representative as large sample size
- send out 4000 questionnaires to uni students