Questions and answers on the key concepts and choice of methods topic of AQA AS Sociolog
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What do positivists argue research should be?
Why do they argue this?
Give some examples of standardised methods of research preferred by positivists
What do positivists use the data they obtain to make?
How do interpretivists disagree?
What do interpretivists want to find out with the research they conduct?
What open-ended research methods do interpretivists prefer?
What do such methods of research allow the researcher to gain and how?
What are the 3 key concepts sociologists use to judge the usefulness of a research method?
For a method to be reliable, it must be _________
What does reliability mean using?
What can a reliable piece of data be used for?
What can't sociologists study every member of the group they are interested in studying?
What do the characteristics of the sampled group need to be in order to the data to be representative?
What does this mean the sociologist will be able to make on the basis of evidence from the sample?
Why do positivists emphasise the need for representativeness?
What does 'validity' refer to?
What is the difference between primary and secondary data?
Give some examples of secondary sources of data?
What are the three main factors that influence a researchers choice of method?
What are the two methodological types?
Which one prefers data to be scientific, objective and quantitative?
What do intepretivists prefer data to be?
Give 2 examples of research methods preferred by each type
How many factors are there surrounding the practical issues of a research method?
What are these factors?
TIME
MONEY
SOURCE OF FINANCE
PERSONAL FACTORS
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY
PERSONAL DANGER
What are the three ethical factors?
Why must researchers gather informed consent from their research subjects?
Research subjects have the right to _________
What does this mean about the research subjects when the research is published?
Give one reason why this may be hard to achieve
How may the research subjects be affected by sociological research?
How can practical, ethical and theoretical factors be interrelated?
What is triangulation?
What 5 factors affect a sociologists choice of topic?
PRACTICAL FACTORS
FUNDING BODIES
SOCIETY'S VALUES
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
CHANCE
