Key Words

Deferred gratification

Immediate gratification

Present-time orientation

Cultural capital

Material deprivation

Cultural deprivation

Speech codes

Restricted code

Elaborated code

Fatalism

Collectivism

Compensatory education

Marketisation

Triage

Ethnocentric

Labelling

Macro

Closed questions

Open questions

Objectivity

Experiments

Interviews

Non-participant observation

Participant observation

Questionnaires

Social survey

Sample

Sampling unit

Sampling frame

Random sample

Systematic sample

Stratified sample

Quota sample

Snowball sample

Volunteer sample

Response rate

Self-completion questionnaire

Structured interview/interview questionnaire

Operationalise

Coding

Closed questions

Open questions

Postal questionnaire

Structured interview

Semi-structured interview

Unstructured interview

Group interviews

Focus groups

Interviewer bias

Non-directive interviewing

Rapport

Ethnography

Covert research

Overt research

Key informant

Behaviour schedule

Structured observational schedule

Verstehen

Pilot study

Hawthorne effect

Informed consent

Triangulation

Social desirability

Validity

Reliability

Going native

Functionalism

Social solidarity

Value consensus

Meritocracy

Complex division of labour

Universalistic standards/impersonal rules

Ascribed status

Achieved status

Marxism

Conflict

Inequality

Fallacy of meritocracy

False class conciousness

Exploitation

Structuralist

Bourgeoisie

Proletariat

Hierarchy

Ideological state apparatus

Repressive state apparatus

Correspondence theory

Hidden curriculum

Hegemony

New Right

marketisation

new vocationalism