Research methods sociologists

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Howard Parker
questionnaires with a team of sociologists every year asking young people living in Manchester and Merseyside their illegal drug taking habits and views
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Crime Survey for England and Wales (structured interview)
collected information about peoples experiences and views of crime to get a true reflection of crime, carried out every year on laptops, same questions each time with new added, respondents are 16+, 75% response rate
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Willmott (structured interview)
small scale survey aiming to find the role of family, friends and neighbours in peoples lives, sample of a working and a middle class area in London, 72 questions, 8 open questions, 59% response rate, collected qualitative data
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Dobash and Dobash
interviewed 109 women living in or previously lived in womens refugees to explain domestic violence in society, only asked women in scotland who were heterosexual, no men, didnt involve those still in relationships, built strong relationships
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Anne Oakley
interviewed 66 women in a london hospital to find out about first time motherhood, spent 6 months with them asking personal questions, consisted mainly of middle class women from the same culture, small age range, biased as she was a mother herself
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Venkatesh
observed a gang for 7 years in Chicago, spending time with them
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Barker
given permissions to observe the religious sect the moonies taking part in prayers and using questionnaires and unstructured interviews
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Patrick
study of a gang in glasgow posing as the leaders friend, visited them over 3 months and had to have lots of knowldege about them to fit in and dress like them, took part in dangerous with weapons, violence and drug taking, relied on memory
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Humphreys
study of male sex in public restrooms, acted as look out, used systematic sheets and voice recordings for notes, took car registration numbers to show up at their house a year later posing as a social health researcher, took extra caution to protect
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Darley and Gross
two groups of students were shown videos of the same girl. in one video she was poor and in the other she was rich. they were shown her taking a test and asked to rate her, the group shown the poor video said she would perform below average
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Asch
participants were put into a group of actors who were posing as participants. they were all shown cards with lines on them and asked questions about them. the actors gave the wrong answers to see if the participants argeed. 1/3 conformed
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Rosenhan
8 normal people went to psychiatric hospitals claiming to hear voices and acted normally. the doctors diagnosed all but one as schizophrenic and interpreted their behaviour as mentally ill
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Hofling
people phoned nurses working on a night shift posing as doctors telling them they urgently needed to administer a suagr pill to patients which they thought was medicine. if they followed they broke 3 rules, all but 1 agreed.
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Stein and Friedrich
92 nursery children were observed for 3 weeks and split into 3 groups. 1 was shown violent cartoons, 2 was shown pro-scocial tv, 3 was shown animal tv. each groups behaviour reflected the programme they watched apart from 3 which didnt change
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Rosenthal and Jacobson
all children in an elementary school took an IQ test, 20% of students were randomly selected and presented to teachers as 'spurters'. a year later the 'spurters' had improved the most
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Durkheim
a study of suicide rates across europe using official statistics finding patterns between suicide, marriage and religion
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Thomas and Zanieki
a study of the intergration of polish immigrants in america using letters of polish immigrants who had moved to america. may have been faked as cash was offered for them, likely to be truthful, large sample of 700 letters, written in polish
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Hitler diary scandal
60 journals were discovered by stern magazine, two weeks later they were found to be fake written by a forger known for faking nazi memorabillia. it was later found there were many mistakes and lack of internal checks
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Leveson
a judicial report investigating the culture, ethics and practice of the british press finding that the press and politicians had been too close and reccommended an independent body to regulate the press and a code of standards for the press
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Macpherson
a report investigating racism within the police after the death of stephen lawrence finding that the police were institutionally racist and made 70 reccomendations to change the attitudes of the police and other public organisations
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Example of a diary
Anne Frank and Hitler diaries
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Example of parish records
lasletts use of parish records to research what the family was like in preindustrial times
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Example of academic articles
articles written by the british journal of sociology
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Example of records of institutions
what is an example of records of institutions? Rosenhans use of psychiatric hospitals
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Example of internet
government website
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Example of novels and literature
Jenna Miscgaviages autobiography
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Example of government report
the scarman report
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Example of magazines and newspapers
mcrobbie used magazines to see how womens representation in the media has changed
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Example of life histories
Barker used life histories in making of a moonie
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Ferguson
ferguson counted how many time certain images appeared in womens magazines
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Cohen
cohen studied how mods and rockers were represented as deviant in the media
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Willis
Study of 12 lads using group interviews and observation
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