Studying society

Question 1

what are social structures?

Answer 1

the different groups and institutions that make up society

Question 2

what are social processes?

Answer 2

the means by which something takes place in society

Question 3

Social issues

Answer 3

issues and problems that affect individuals, groups and communities in their daily lives

Question 4

social stratification…..poverty and inequality

Answer 4

discrimination

Question 5

…..formal and informal control, knife,teenage and fear of crime

Answer 5

legal system

Question 6

social processes of the education system

Answer 6

secondary socialisation, labelling, the development of subcultures

Question 7

social issues with families

Answer 7

the dark side, quality of parenting, teenage parenthood

Question 8

what is culture?

Answer 8

way of life of a society including its values,norms, beliefs and language

Question 9

psychology is…?

Answer 9

the science of mind and behaviour

Question 10

biology is…?

Answer 10

the study of living organisms

Question 11

1 of research process=

Answer 11

developing research aims and hypotheses

Question 12

2 of research process=

Answer 12

carrying out a pilot study

Question 13

3 of research process=

Answer 13

selecting a sample

Question 14

4 of research process=

Answer 14

collecting the data

Question 15

5 of research process=

Answer 15

analyzing the data

Question 16

6 of research process=

Answer 16

evaluating the study’s aims, methods,findings and conclusions

Question 17

what are research aims?

Answer 17

what you intend to investigate- focus

Question 18

what is a hypothesis?

Answer 18

informed guess you want to research

Question 19

Why do a pilot study?

Answer 19

check wording, make sure it doesn’t take too long, unclear questions

Question 20

how do you evaluate the study?

Answer 20

write articles about their research, peer reviewed

Question 21

probability sampling ( random)

Answer 21

equal chances - simple random, systematic and stratificied

Question 22

non probabilty sampling

Answer 22

snowball, quota, purposive ( not likely to be representative)

Question 23

through contact with one member, researcher is introduced to others

Answer 23

snowball

Question 24

each member of the population has an equal chance

Answer 24

simple random

Question 25

researchers take every nth item from the sampling frame

Answer 25

systematic

Question 26

researchers divide the population into strata then draw a sample form each subgroup in proportion to the numbers in the population

Answer 26

stratified