Research methods
Research Methods – revision images
Quick view to understanding positivism – quantitative research methods
Quick view to understand interpretivism – qualitative research methods
Each of the headings below have a podcast explaining the content. All credit for these clips must go to Sam Cook who went to all the time and trouble to make them in year 13 a few years back.
An example of social research – the survival time of chocolates on a hospital ward
- Qualitative sources
- Quantitative sources
- Sampling methods
- Key Issues (understanding: reliability; Hawthorne Effect; ethics; validity; operationalization etc)
- Factors that affect the choice of research methods
- Primary or secondary sources
SECONDARY RESEARCH METHODS
- Secondary research methods
- Official statistics
- Content analysis
- Personal documents
- Public and historical documents
PRIMARY RESEARCH METHODS
- Experimental method & their problems for sociologists
- Field experiments
- Social survey – (representativeness; survey population; sample frame)
- Questionnaires
- Postal questionnaires
- Evaluation of structured interviews
- Evaluation of unstructured interviews
- Participant Observation
- Non-Participant Observation
METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM
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