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Introduction to Research Methods: The Research Method Issues
How many different types of resea...,
Name the 3 types of research issu...,
What are practical issues
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Practical Aspects of Research
Why could cost be a strength in r...,
What is time,
What is choice of research topic
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Ethical Aspects of Research
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Theoretical Aspects of Research
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Quantitative and Qualitative Definitions
Define quantitative data,
Define qualitative data,
Define verstehen
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Quantitative Primary Methods
How many quantitative primary met...,
Name a quantitative primary metho...,
Name 2 quantitative primary metho...
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Qualitative Primary Methods
How many qualitative primary rese...,
What is the difference with inter...,
What is another name for unstruct...
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Practical Issues of Research
Define practical issues,
How is cost and funding an issue ...,
What makes cost an issue
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Ethical Issues of Research
Define ethical issues,
What 3 parts of a society might a...,
What does the british sociologica...
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Theoretical Issues of Research
What are theoretical issues,
Which type of sociologists are mo...,
What type of sociological approac...
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Ethical Problems in Hoyle's Study
Was this research quantitative or...,
What research method did hoyle use,
What was hoyle researching
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Ethical Problems of Humphreys' Study
What did humphreys study,
How long did humphreys do his stu...,
What type of method did humphreys...
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Ethical Problems in Fleisher's Study
Was this qualitative or quantitat...,
What method of studying did fleis...,
Who was fleisher studying
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Theoretical Approaches to Research: Positivism
How do positivists argue we shoud...,
Why do positivists think we shoul...,
Do positivists take a top down or...
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Theoretical Approaches to Research: Interpretivism
Which research method view do int...,
Do interpretivists take a top dow...,
What is the bottom up approach
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Theoretical Approaches to Research: Realism
What is the reality in terms of u...,
Why will most modern researchers ...,
What is the realist approach know...
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Quantitative Primary Research Methods: Questionnaires
Define a questionnaire,
What two types of questions can a...,
What type of data is produced usi...
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Questionnaire Assessment Preparation
How many paragraphs must you write,
What is the subject of the first ...,
What is the subject of the final ...
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Questionnaires - Strengths and Weaknesses
How many strengths and weaknesses...,
What are the 3 types of considera...,
Why is accessing a large sample o...
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Questionnaires - Studies to Apply
How could the census be used to s...,
Is the strength of access p e or t,
How could the british social atti...
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Questionnaires - 20 Mark Question Structure
What must be the first thing that...,
How many peel paragraphs must you...,
What must you discuss in each pee...
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Structured Interviews
What is a structured interview,
If the interview is structured ar...,
Is the researcher present with st...
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Structured Interviews - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why are structured interviews bei...,
Why is researcher bias a weakness...,
Why is being able to do structure...
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Social Surveys
What are the aims of a social survey,
Do social surveys give qualitativ...,
Are
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Quantitative Primary Methods: Social Surveys - Strengths and Weaknesses
How is objectivity a strength is ...,
Why are social surveys low in val...,
If social surveys are low in vali...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Unstructured Interview
What are unstructured interviews,
Are unstructured interviews parti...,
What does it mean if unstructured...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Unstructured Interviews - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is,
Why are unstructured interviews b...,
Why is verstehen a strength is it...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Focus Groups
What is the role of a researcher ...,
Do researchers ask questions in f...,
What is the role of the participa...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Focus Groups - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is time a strength of focus g...,
Why is anonymity a weakness of fo...,
Why is cost a strength of focus g...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Focus Groups - Studies to Apply
Why was james study useful to app...,
Why was archers study useful to a...,
Why was willis study useful to ap...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Semi-structured Interviews
How do semi structured interviews...,
How are semi structured interview...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Semi-structured Interviews - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is the researcher being able ...,
Why is validity a weakness in sem...,
Why is the participants being abl...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Semi-structured Interviews - Studies to Apply
Which 2 research methods did jack...,
How many pupils were in jackson s...,
How were jackson s interviews sem...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Observation
What is observation,
What can observation offer a rese...,
What is non participant observation
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Observation - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is valid data a strength for ...,
What is the hawthorne effect,
Why is the hawthorne effect a wea...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Observation Strengths and Weaknesses with applied Studies
What did parke and griffiths study,
What form of observation did park...,
How was objectivity a strength in...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Overt Research - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is the researchers role being...,
Why is the hawthorne effect a wea...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Covert Research - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is covert research being less...,
Why is deception a weakness in co...,
Why is no informed consent a weakn
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Ethnography
What is the goal of ethnographers,
How do ethnographers achieve thei...,
Do ethnographers used mixed methods
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Ethnography - Strengths and Weaknesses
How are ethnographies being valid...,
How is time a weakness in ethnogr...,
Why is gaining verstehen a streng...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Longitudional Research and 7-UP
What is longitudional research,
Name a british longitudional stud...,
What were 3 main aspects of lives...
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Qualitative Primary Methods: Longitudional Research - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is being able to show changes...,
Why is using mixed methods a weak...,
Why is being able to identify var...
12
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Triangulation/Mixed Methods/Methodological Pluralism
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Triangulation: Why Researchers Triangulate
Why do researchers triangulate in...,
What does using mixed methods hel...,
How do mixed methods help researc...
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Triangulation: Problems with Mixed Methods
What is a problem with mixed meth...,
Why is cost a problem with mixed ...,
Why is social profile a problem i...
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Secondary Data: Public/Official Documents
Who creates public official docum...,
Are government inquiries public,
What does it mean if documents ar...
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Secondary Data: Public/Official Documents - Strengths and Weaknesses
Why is access to a wide range of ...,
Why is time a weakness with offic...,
Why are official documents in hig...
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Secondary Data: Official Statistics
What are official statistics,
If official statistics produce nu...,
Are official statistics often gat...
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Secondary Data: Different approaches to Official Statistics
Why are positivists more likely t...,
Why will interpretivists not use ...,
Why do marxists dislike official ...
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Secondary Data: Official Statistics - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Secondary Data: Personal Documents
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Secondary Data: Personal Documents - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Secondary Data: Strengths and Weaknesses Application to a Study
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Secondary Data: Historical Documents
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Secondary Data: Historical Documents - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Secondary Data: Historical Documents - Strengths and Weaknesses Application to 2 Studies
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Secondary Data: Media Sources
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Secondary Data: Media Sources - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Secondary Data: Using Existing Sociological Research - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Sampling Methods
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Representative Sampling Methods: Simple Random Sampling
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Representative Sampling Methods: Simple Random Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Representative Sampling Methods: Stratified Random Sampling
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Representative Sampling Methods: Stratified Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Representative Sampling Methods: Systematic Random Sampling
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Representative Sampling Methods: Systematic Random Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Representative Sampling Methods: Quota Sampling
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Representative Sampling Methods: Quota Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Snowball Sampling
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Snowball Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Volunteer Sampling
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Volunteer Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Purposive Sampling
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Purposive Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Opportunity Sampling
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Non-Representative Sampling Methods: Opportunity Sampling - Strengths and Weaknesses
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Sampling Methods: Identifying Sampling Methods of Specific Studies
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Research Design Overview
How many marks are research desig...,
In these questions how are you po...,
Why is your positioning in the qu...
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Research Design Plan
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Research Design: Introduction
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Research Design: Operationalisation
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Research Design: Justification of the Method
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Research Design: Justification for Sampling Method
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Research Design: Justification for Access
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Research Design: Objectivity and Subjectivity
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Research Design: Ethics
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Key Terms: A to O
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Key Terms: P to S
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Key Terms: S to V
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Quantitative Research Methods: Questionnaires - The Census
Where does the british census tak...,
How much does the census cost,
How often is the census
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Quantitative Research Methods: Questionnaires - Rees and Lee
Did rees and lee carry out a surv...,
How many people were involved in ...,
What age group did rees and lee u...
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Quantitative Research Methods: Questionnaires - BSA Survey
How often does the bsa survey occur,
How many people participate in th...,
Name 3 attitude types this survey...
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Quantitative Research Methods: Structured Interviews - CSEW
Do the csew use surveys,
Who conducts the csew,
How often is the csew conducted
14
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Quantitative Research Methods: Structured Interviews - Townsend
What was the purpose of this study,
How long did the research take,
How many households were involved
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Qualitative Research Methods: Unstructured Interviews - Sharpe
What research method did sharpe u...,
What was the purpose of sharpe s ...,
What did sharpe find about girls ...
7
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Qualitative Research Methods: Unstructured Interviews -Dobash and Dobash
What form of interviews did dobas...,
If they used unstructured intervi...,
What was the purpose of the inter...
7
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Qualitative Research Methods: Unstructured Interviews - Hoyle
What did hoyle research,
How did hoyle brief her participants,
Were the husbands interviewed as ...
9
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Qualitative Research Methods: Focus Groups - James
What did james want to study,
Name a group which james studied,
Why was james accessing this grou...
10
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Qualitative Research Methods: Focus Groups - Archer
Why did archer do longitudional i...,
Why did archer also do group inte...,
How many students were involved w...
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Qualitative Research Methods: Semi-structured Interviews - Davies
Who did davies carry her research...,
What form of interviews did davie...,
What was the main subject of her ...
12
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Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnography - Venkatesh
Where did venkatesh do his research,
What did venkatesh bring with him...,
What did venkatesh want to learn ...
15
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Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnography - MacIntyre
Who did this study,
How did macintyre get his data wi...,
What did macintyre do over the ye...
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Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnography - Blackman
What group of people did blackman...,
How did blackmans research role e...,
Why was any type of interview imp...
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Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnography - Fleisher
What group of people did fleisher...,
How long did fleisher spend with ...,
How did fleisher justify doing an...
8
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Qualitative Research Methods: Covert Observation - Humphreys
What did humphreys study,
How long did the study take,
How did humphreys participate in ...
15
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Qualitative Research Methods: Covert Observation - Ditton
What did ditton do his research on,
What did dittons study highlight ...,
What was a problem for ditton in ...
8
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Qualitative Research Methods: Overt Observation - Willis
Who did willis conduct his resear...,
How many boys did willis study wh...,
What form of interviews did willi...
10
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Qualitative Research Methods: Overt Observation - Mac an Ghaill
Which group of people did mac an ...,
How many groups of non white youn...,
What were the names of the 3 groups
10
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Qualitative Research Methods: Non-Participant Observation - Parke and Griffiths
What did parke and griffiths study,
Why did parke and griffiths choos...,
What was a benefit of using the c...
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Qualitative Research Methods: Non-Participant Observation - Francis
What did francis record,
Name 2 gatekeepers francis went t...,
How many schools did francis observe
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Qualitative Research Methods: Non-Participant Observation - Lacey
Who did lacey go through to get a...,
How long did lacey spend familiar...,
How long did lacey observe lessons
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Qualitative Research Methods: Longitudional Research - Born in Bradford
How many children are tracked in ...,
What months and years born are th...,
Name 2 ways the born in bradford ...
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Qualitative Research Methods: Longitudional Research - Farrington
What was the aim of the study,
How many families were there at t...,
What percentage of the men were s...
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Qualitative Research Methods: Longitudional Research - 7-UP
When did the 7 up series start,
How many participants were there ...,
When did the series end why
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Qualitative Research Methods: Longitudional Research - Millennium Cohort
How many children were involved i...,
What was the aim of the study,
Which organisation led the study
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Mixed Methods: Barker
How many years did barker spend o...,
What was barker researching,
How long did it take barker to ga...
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Mixed Methods: Archer
How many students were involved i...,
How many students were involved i...,
How many different schools did ar...
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Mixed Methods: Jackson
What did jackson study,
Why did some schoolgirls act ladd...,
How many pupils did jackson study
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Organisations which create Secondary Data
Whch organisation collects census...,
Who pays for the census how much ...,
What is the csew
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Personal Documents - Hey
What was hey studying,
What did hey want to understand,
Did hey use participant observation
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Thomas and Znaniecki
What did thomas and znaniecki study,
What 2 types of documents did the...,
How many pages were made from the...
10
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Analysis of Media Reports - McRobbie and Garber
What did mcrobbie and garber examine,
What concept did mcrobbie and gar...,
What 3 things did mcrobbie and ga...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Analysis of Media Reports - Ferguson
What did ferguson want to find,
Name 2 dominant themes ferguson f...,
What did ferguson do with these d...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Analysis of Media Reports - Boepple and Thompson
Was boepple and thompson s resear...,
How many blogs did boepple and th...,
What were boepple and thompson re...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Analysis of Media Reports - Davis et al
What did davis et al analyse,
How many comments were there unde...,
How many comments about personal ...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Historical Documents - Aries
What did aries research,
What forms of data did aries use ...,
What did aries argue in relation ...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Historical Documents - Laslett
What did laslett study,
What did laslett find,
What argument did laslett disprov...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Other Sociological Research - Wilkinson and Pickett
What did wilkinson and pickett ob...,
How did wilkinson and pickett ran...,
Which country did they find was t...
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Secondary Data Research Methods: Other Sociological Research - Cohen
Which researcher was cohen inspir...,
What did merton believe,
Did merton suggest there was a co...
10
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