A Level Sociology - Methodology - Choosing a Method
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- Methodology
Topic One
-Choosing
a Method
- Personal Skills
- If sociologists/researchers don't have the right qualities, it will affect their ability to use certain methods
- Personal Skills
- Theoretical Issues
- Validity
- Need to be sure that your information is completely accurate if you are going
to use it Must get as close as possible to the truth - your information must be valid
- According to interpretivists, participant observation is the best way to do this as info is seen as honest and therefore valid.
- Need to be sure that your information is completely accurate if you are going
to use it Must get as close as possible to the truth - your information must be valid
- Reliability
- You must be able to reproduce your results to make sure they are valid.
- Hard to do in sociology as results can change over time.
- You must be able to reproduce your results to make sure they are valid.
- Representativeness
- Need to make sure that the group you are studying are fairly represented to make it fair.
- Methodological Perspective
- Your choice of method is heavily effected by your own opinions.
- There are two types: Positivist and Interpretativists
- Positivists prefer quantitative methods and look for patterns of behaviour, seeing sociology as a natural science.
- Interpretativists prefer qualitative methods and try to understand meanings of social actors, rejecting how sociology is a natural science.
- Interpretativists prefer qualitative methods and try to understand meanings of social actors, rejecting how sociology is a natural science.
- Positivists prefer quantitative methods and look for patterns of behaviour, seeing sociology as a natural science.
- There are two types: Positivist and Interpretativists
- Your choice of method is heavily effected by your own opinions.
- Methodology
Topic One
-Choosing
a Method
- Personal Skills
- If sociologists/researchers don't have the right qualities, it will affect their ability to use certain methods
- Personal Skills
- Validity
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