Sociology - Relationship Between Theory and Method 0.0 / 5 ? SociologySociological theoryASOCR Created by: MegsJackman1436250Created on: 04-05-17 15:48 What are reasons for sociologists to conduct research? Patterns and correlations, back up a theory, uncover answers about society 1 of 15 What are some methods of sociological research? Statistics, questionnaires, interviews, observations 2 of 15 What is quantitative data? Results in numerical form 3 of 15 What is qualitative data? Results in wod form 4 of 15 What are the advantages of quantitative data? Patterns and correlations, easy to compare, see how 5 of 15 What are the disadvantages of quantitative data? Not much depth and cannot see why 6 of 15 What are the advantages of qualitative data? Easy to find out why and gives indepth information to why 7 of 15 What are the disadvantages of qualitative data? Hard to spot patterns, difficult to compare and takes longer to conduct 8 of 15 Who believes that people are the puppets of society? Positivists 9 of 15 What do positivists believe? Society is more important than the individual 10 of 15 What are some key words to describe positivism? Objective, quantitative, reliability, representative 11 of 15 What do positivists believe? People create society, not the other way around 12 of 15 What are some key words to describe interprestivism? Rapport, verstehen, ethnography, subjectivity, free will 13 of 15 What are practical factors of the research process? Ethics, cost, time, subject matter 14 of 15 What are the five ethical considerations? Consent, avoid deception, confidentiality, protection from harm, protection of sociologist, avoidance of illegal behaviour 15 of 15
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