studying Society

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Postal questionnaires

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Are posted to you and you fill them in then send it back.
Bout every day life and every day living.e g what is your name what’s your occupation.

Strengths quick,efficient way of obtaining information. May be more willing to answer potentially embarrassing questions.

Never sure who filled it I wrong person might filled it in never 100% sure.
People may not fully understand the question.

Question 1

Longitunal studies

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Is a study of the same group of people over a long period of time.
Advantages-it allows researches to examine social changes over time and gain insight in too patterns and trends on a social group.

Disadvantages- expensive due to time
Participant may change behaviour because they no there being watched
Hard it stay in contact with participants over time

People may change their mind and not want to continue participating in the study

Question 2

Participant observation (covert)

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Researcher joins a group of people and participants in its activities as a full member on a daily basis.
Advantages allows researcher to see natural everyday behaviour and observe it’s actives .only method which they can observe illegal drug dealing.

Disadvantages may be hard to enter the group which could cause complication or delay of results.
Can become time consuming. Researcher may become too involed and let their emotions influence the study.

Question 3

Participant observation overt

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Researcher joins a group of participants in their activities. Could do investigation overtly or covertly. Overt is where the researcher informs the group so they are aware of their researcher activities.

Advantages They have the participants concent.
Researcher can become involed.

Weakness researches presence may influence the behaviour of the group. Observer affect

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Sampling methods

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Random sampling how we selected participants/people

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Random sampling

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Each persons has an even chance of being picked
Ex sample names out of a hat
Computer program
Random generated

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Opportunity sampling

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The reasearer is in one place and ask people to take part.

In a ton centre

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Volunteer sampling

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Place n advert and people come forward. Can be representative and can target key groups. Eg public place or a magazine

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Snowball sampling

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Ask one person then they lead you to another

Eg dark areas, drug dealers,

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Quota sampling

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Decide on numbers of people yup want to ask and you ask that number then move on
Exsample marker researcher

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Stratified sampling

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Sample reflects the wider population
10% the uk are Buddhist
10% of your sample are Buddhists

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What does it mean when we say that a sample (group of participants)is represnitive of the wider population

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When a group of participants are similar to the wider population

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Researcher method process (rmp)

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Sociologist
Aims
General area of an investigation/study
Eg education and gender

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Hypothess (rmp)

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An Informed prediction of what you expect to find based on evidence

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Method ( rmp)

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How you carry out your research

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Pilot study (rmp)

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Small scale test run before the. Aim study

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Sample method (rmp)

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How you selected participants eg randomly

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Results (rmp)

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Graph

Statistics

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Conclusion (rmp)

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Tell you what the results mean

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Evulation

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Say strength and weakness of the research

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Primary data

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Data you have collected your self eg interviewing someone as a sociologist

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Secondary data

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Data that already exists or collection by someone else eg book biary entres etc

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Methods of data collection

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Postal questionnaires
Strucher interviews
Un Strucher interviews
Group interviews
Longitude studies
Participant observation
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Covert.       Overt .

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Feral children

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Are childepren who raidpsed by animals and pick up the animals characteristics and how they behave. Baby only come in the world only knowing how to breath and cry and we react from our environment around us.

Question 24

Culture

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The way of life of a group of people eg religion tradition language and vaulses and beliefs.

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Socialisation

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Learning of nomrs and vaulses of the culture you are born into

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Primary socialisation

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Early learning in early childhood parents and family teach this us.
They teach us this by reacting the words and by rewarding us and telling us when we are wrong

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Secondary socialisation

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This is after childhood it occurs in childhood and carries on throughout our lives

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Agencies of secondary socialisation

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Religion, school, the work place, the media and peers.

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agents or agencies

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People who teach us socialisation

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Gender

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Not biological it’s nurture we learn it from our environment
How masculine or feminine a person is

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Gender socialisation

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Learning of norms and vaulses according to their gender. There we a lot of stereo types about men and women

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Exsample of stereotypes

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Men do d I y boys get dirty girls bake and women clean and cook

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Gender free

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Is where ye childs parents don’t tell anyone if it’s a boy or a girl they do this because people carnt influence the child’s decisions on what to wear or play with

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Sociology

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Study of society

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Society

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Large social group that shares same location and follow the same government and cultural expectations

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Norms change

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Across places such as country’s and over time

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Vaulses

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Are idea and beliefs people have about what is desirable and worth aiming for values give us general guidelines About how to behave
Eg family education

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Social structure

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The organisation/groups that make up society (normally has. Top/bottom)

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Social process

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The stages we go through In life

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Society issues

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Problems in society

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Journalism

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The publication of stories within the newspaper

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Psychology

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The study of the indivual

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Biology

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Is they study of nature thing we are born with eg genetics

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Sociology

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Is concerned with nurture ( upbringing , environment)

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Quantitative data

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Data in numbers

Eg percentages averages graphs

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Qualitative

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Data not in number written a both them
Book diaries tv programmes
More likey to be language

Question 47

Ehtical issues

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The British sociological association has complied a set of ethical guidelines to assit sociologist in their research these include
Informed consent
Participants should be able to give informed concent to take part
This means sociologists should explain what the research about and be given the opportunity to say yes they want to take part

Confidently all
person information should be kept confidential eg names ages location should not be published