Sociologist Lacey used a variety of different methods including participant and non-participant observation. He became very involved in school life by doing things such as teaching lessons and going on school trips, by doing this he was able to gain detailed insight into school relations within the school to show how pupils polarised into pro and anti school subcultures, and how or whether this had an impact on their achievement.
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Observational methods can be extremely time consuming, as shown by Lacey whoms experiment took him all of 18 months. As well as this being able to provide detailed insight into a school, one school may not be representable to others, therefore the results are not generalisable.
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