Full AQA AS and A level sociology full research method notes.
Includes:
AO1 - deffinitions
AO2 - relevant real world application
AO3 - evaluation
+ studies in the spec that go with each research method
Researc AO1 AO2 AO3 Study that
h supports
Method
positivism An approach Link methods Methods are large scale so
that seeks to below to representative but standardised
prove social another part of nature means methods lack
facts through the spec flexibility
scientific Positivists like Easy to quantify and so reliable
methods structured however decreases validity
interveiws, Look at bigger picture in society
structured (macro) so is hollistic approach
observation, and identifies cause and effect but
official it is difficult to develop policies
statistics, self from hollistic approach as you
completion cannot understand the smaller
questionares issues that are effecting society on
and a larger scale so cannot
experiments understand the true cause and
Say whether a effect
contemporary
issue is suitable
for positivists to
research or not
interprete Link methods High in validity but very time Families
vist below to consuming Domestic violence =
another part of Small in scale so not coleman found
the spec representative women are more
intepretivists Lacks reliability but greater likely to experience
like flexibility means higher validity intimate domestic
unstructured Interpretivism gives voice to those violence in the home
interveiws, often ignored by society which can
unstructured enhance our knowledge and
, observation, understanding of minority and
documents and marginalised groups in society but
photo diaries do these minority marginalised
Say whether a groups truly get a voice as
contemporary subjectivity means their thoughts,
issue is suitable feelings and opions will be
for positivists to intepreted by the researcher using
research or not his own thoughts on the subject
Link AO3 voice leading to bias such as
point to BLM ethnocentric bias
and Lack objectivity
ethnocentric Utilises triangulation of methods
bias so more rich and in depth
Link AO3 rich Micro approach = reductionist
and in depth
point to
domestic
violence
Open No pre- Victim surveys + rich and in depth Crime
questionar determined + validity Crime survey for
es answers and - Time consuming england and
ppts are free - reliability wales 2014 - we
to respond in live in a high crime
their own society with low
words tolerance from MOS
gathering for crime and most
qualitative MOS feel crime is
data rising rather than
decreasing due to
the idea of defining
deviance up.
Can also use
bowling on victim
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