Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Theory and Methods Questions
- Assess the view that interpretivist methods are the most appropriate methods for
researching society
- Field or social experiments
- Unstructured interviews
- Personal Documents
- Observation
- Triangulation
- Relationship between qualitative and interpretivist methods
- Primary versus secondary data
- Cause verses meaning
- Structure verses
action
- Positivism and interpretivism
- Becker; Blumer; Lemert; Goffman; Mead; Marx;
Durkheim; Parsons; Weber; Cicourel; Garfinkel;
Gouldner; Berger & Luckmann; Hargreaves; Lacey; J
Young; Pearson
- Assess the contribution of functionalist and New Right theories and research to our understanding of society
today
- Value Consensus
- Social Order
- Organic Analogy
- Consensus versus conflict
- Socialisation
- Social Control
- Goal Attainment
- Integration
- Traditional versus modern society
- The underclass
- Culture of dependency
- Bauman; Becker; Davis & Moore; Durkheim; Friedman;
Giddens; Gouldner; Malinowski; Marsland; Marx; Merton;
Murray; Oakley; Parsons; Webe
- ‘Sociology can be value-free and should be value-free.’
- Positvist vs interprevisit
- Quantative and qualative data
- Sceintific method
- Validity
- Reliability
- Objectivity
- Value freedom
- Postmodernism
- Comte; Becker; Durkheim; Gouldner;
Kuhn; Marx; Popper; Weber; Mouzelis.
- Assess the view that positivist methods are inappropriate for investigating society
- Positivist vs interpretivist
- Quantative and qualitive data
- Scientific method
- Reliability
- Validity
- Objectivity and value freedom
- Postmodernism
- Social facts/social constriction
- Realism
- Macro versus micro
- Atkinson; Becker; Cicourel; Durkheim; Douglas; Garfinkel;
Glaser and Strauss; Kuhn; Oakley; Popper; Weber; official
statistics on crime; demography; poverty; etc. NB
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- Assess the relative importance of the different factors that affect sociologists’ choice of research methods
and of topics to investigate.
- PET's in choice of method and topic
- Reliability
- Validity
- Representative and generalisation
- Quantative and Qualitative data
- Hypothetico-deductive methodl
- Grounded theory
- Becker; Blumer; Durkheim; Glaser &
Strauss; Gouldner; Graham; Oakley;
Humphreys; Milgram; Mayo; Tuckett; Weber.
- Predecents of previous reasearch time
- Time
- Cost
- Reasearcher skills/characteristics
- Access
- Preferences of reasearcher
- Personal and societal values
- chanced cuircumstances
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality
- Vunrability
- Danger/harm to reasearcher or participants