Research Methods

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Primary Data
Information collected first hand by sociologists, methods include participant observation, social surveys and experiments
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Secondary Data
Information collected by not sociologists themselves for their own research purposes, but by other people for not sociological reasons
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Quantitative Data
Information in numerical form. Official statistics and results of social surveys
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Qaulitative Data
Information expressed in words about peoples thoughts, feelings and attitudes
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Validity
Whether what is measured was measured for its true meaning
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Representative
When something can be repeated it is representative
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Information collected by not sociologists themselves for their own research purposes, but by other people for not sociological reasons

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Secondary Data

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Information in numerical form. Official statistics and results of social surveys

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Information expressed in words about peoples thoughts, feelings and attitudes

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Whether what is measured was measured for its true meaning

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