Research Methods
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- Created on: 22-04-19 23:55
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- Sociological Research Methods
- Questionnaires
- self completion-less time consuming
- anonymous-useful for exploring sensitive topic areas
- closed-favoured by positivists can be used in large numbers
- Types of questions
- closed questions
- open questions
- multiple choice questions
- scaled questions
- list of questions, can be administered face to face or even by post/email
- Key educational study-Carol Jackson(2006)-self completion questionnaires: lads and ladettes in year 9 researching gender and fear of failure
- using them to investigate education-subject options, revision, school, achievement, parental attitudes to education
- Interviews
- Structured interviews
- Unstructured interviews
- Semi structured interviews
- group interviews
- Key Study #1-Paul Willis-Learning to Labour(1977)-group interview
- verstahen-gained through building a good rapport with the 'lads'
- Key Study #2- Wright et al(2005)-why are African-Caribbean students subject to more exclusion from school?-unstructured interviews and group interviews
- Experiments
- Laboratory experiment
- Key Study-Harvey and Slatin-teacher expectations
- Field experiment
- Key Study-Rosenthal and Jacobson(1964)-Self Fulfilling Prophecy-effects of teacher expectations on pupils' behaviour and performance
- The Comparative Method
- Key Study-Durkheim's study of suicide
- Laboratory experiment
- Observations
- participant observation
- non participant observation
- Key Study- Paul Willis-covert participant observation as well as interviews
- William Whyte-Street Corner Society-covert participant observation
- Sudhir Venkatesh-Gang Leader for A Day-overt participant observation
- Other Methods
- official statistics
- Secondary sources: documents
- historical documents e.g parish records, census stats, novels etc
- diaries and letters
- official reports e.g Ofsted
- oral and family history
- Case studies
- longitudinal studies
- content analysis
- pilot studies
- Questionnaires
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