Official statistics
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- Created on: 01-10-20 11:46
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- Official Statistics
- Representativeness
- can you generalise?
- yes! government statistics generally cover the whole of the UK
- can you generalise?
- Effectiveness
- They are very useful in that the sociologist can gain a picture of patterns and trends across the UK
- issues with validity and problems with definitions either changing/ differing to that used by the sociologists
- Use stats as part of triangulation
- Triangulation
- Methodological pluralism is the use of multiple methods
- Many sociologists combine the methods they use in order to get a fuller picture
- the weaknesses of one method may be cancelled out by the strengths of an other
- E.g. a positivist method (official stats) might be combined with an interpretivist one (unstructured one)
- the weaknesses of one method may be cancelled out by the strengths of an other
- Triangulation
- Use stats as part of triangulation
- issues with validity and problems with definitions either changing/ differing to that used by the sociologists
- conclusion
- how useful is this method?
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- how useful is this method?
- They are very useful in that the sociologist can gain a picture of patterns and trends across the UK
- Representativeness
- PERVERT-
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