Sociology- Research methods
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Quantitative Data
In statistics, quantitative data is numerical and acquired through counting or measuring and contrasted with qualitative data sets, which describe attributes of objects but do not contain numbers.
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Qualitative data
Qualitative research is a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data
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Primary research
A type of research that is performed to answer specific issues or questions. It mostly consist surveys, questionnaires, or interviews with a small groups or individuals.
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Secondary research
involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research rather than primary research, in which data are collected from, for example, research subjects or experiments.
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Questionnares
A set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the purposes of a survey or statistical study.
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Surveys
3.investigate the opinions or experience of (a group of people) by asking them questions
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Field experiment
A field experiment applies the scientific method to experimentally examine an intervention in the real world (or as many experimentalists like to say, naturally occurring environments) rather than in the laboratory.
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Official statistics
statistics published by government agencies or other public bodies such as international organizations. They provide quantitative or qualitative information on all major areas of citizens' lives, such as economic and social development, living condit
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Non-Participant observation
Involves observing participants without actively participating. This option is used to understand a phenomenon by entering the community or social system involved, while staying separate from the activities being observed
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Participant observation
characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society.
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Interviews
A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation
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Theoretical factors
A theoretical definition is a proposed way of thinking about potentially related events
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Practical factors
The portion of a training or qualification program utilizing on-the-job or practical knowledge skills. Practical factors are the required attributes of this hands-on type of training.
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Ethical factors
Ethics is a code of honor that individuals live by. What defines ethical from unethical behavior can be formed in early childhood and carry through to adulthood. The factors that define ethical behaviors are diverse, but all factors unite when a pers
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Positivism
Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that certain knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source
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Interprevitism
an approach to social science that opposes the positivism of natural science. Qualitative research, a method of inquiry in social science and related disciplines. Interpretivism (legal), a school of thought in contemporary jurisprudence and the philo
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Reliability
measurement procedure, they are questioning whether the same results would be produced if the research procedure were to be repeated
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Representativeness
Representativeness refers to the chosen sample being a representative sample. A representative sample is a smaller group (the sample via sociologists chosen sample method) taken from the survey population which contains a good cross-section of the su
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Sampling
Sampling is the procedure for choosing a sample from a defined statistical population. The population from which a sample is drawn is the sampling frame and the ratio between the size of the sample and the size of the parent population is the samplin
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Validity
validity is the degree to which an instrument, such as a survey question, measures what it is intended to measure while external validity refers to the ability of results of an experiment to be generalized beyond the immediate study
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Qualitative research is a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data
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Qualitative data
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A type of research that is performed to answer specific issues or questions. It mostly consist surveys, questionnaires, or interviews with a small groups or individuals.
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involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research rather than primary research, in which data are collected from, for example, research subjects or experiments.
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A set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the purposes of a survey or statistical study.
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