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| Advantages of using secondary data in sociological research |
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* can save time
* can save money |
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| What secondary data may be used to complement questionnaires? |
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* suggest questions to use in questionnaires - might reveal patterns
*quanlitative secondary research ie letters to complement quantitative research - valid and reliable data |
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| problems using letters or diaries in sociological research |
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* written documents, if studing a culture or group of people who don't write then no documents.
*lie or exaggerate when writing things down
*may be forgeries
*problem of interpreting their meanings
*not everyone keeps diaries - so unrepresentative |
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| why might questionnaires not be valid? |
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* validity = authentic or true picture of what is being studied
* low response rate
*filled out by wrong person
*not understanding the question
*those who do respond may be very different from those which don't = distorted picture |
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| factual and scientific research |
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| Who used scientific methods in sociology and what was their study? |
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| Durkheim – suicide study –different countries, social condition made people more/less likely to commit suicide |
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| Why do positives use scientific methods of research? |
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| to prove that it is a science like chemistry. Support their theoretical model of society – there is some form of structure that exists independently of individual views. |
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| seeing society as a whole – top down approach |
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| Who founded positivism? – |
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| Why did he found positivism? – |
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| belief that there should be a peaceful way of solving social problems. |
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| No but he used structuralist approach to change the world. |
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| What methods does positivism use? – |
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| quantitative, facts which can be replicated |
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