studying Society Flashcards
(48 cards)
Postal questionnaires
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.
Longitunal studies
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
Participant observation (covert)
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.
Participant observation overt
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
Sampling methods
Random sampling how we selected participants/people
Random sampling
Each persons has an even chance of being picked
Ex sample names out of a hat
Computer program
Random generated
Opportunity sampling
The reasearer is in one place and ask people to take part.
In a ton centre
Volunteer sampling
Place n advert and people come forward. Can be representative and can target key groups. Eg public place or a magazine
Snowball sampling
Ask one person then they lead you to another
Eg dark areas, drug dealers,
Quota sampling
Decide on numbers of people yup want to ask and you ask that number then move on
Exsample marker researcher
Stratified sampling
Sample reflects the wider population
10% the uk are Buddhist
10% of your sample are Buddhists
What does it mean when we say that a sample (group of participants)is represnitive of the wider population
When a group of participants are similar to the wider population
Researcher method process (rmp)
Sociologist
Aims
General area of an investigation/study
Eg education and gender
Hypothess (rmp)
An Informed prediction of what you expect to find based on evidence
Method ( rmp)
How you carry out your research
Pilot study (rmp)
Small scale test run before the. Aim study
Sample method (rmp)
How you selected participants eg randomly
Results (rmp)
Graph
Statistics
Conclusion (rmp)
Tell you what the results mean
Evulation
Say strength and weakness of the research
Primary data
Data you have collected your self eg interviewing someone as a sociologist
Secondary data
Data that already exists or collection by someone else eg book biary entres etc
Methods of data collection
Postal questionnaires Strucher interviews Un Strucher interviews Group interviews Longitude studies Participant observation ^. ^ Covert. Overt .
Feral children
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.
