25 terms in 3.3
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Content analysis systematically analyses text/media content (counting themes, categories). Semiotics analyses meaning: s
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Longitudinal studies follow same participants over time (months, years, decades), showing change and causation. Examples
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Feminist methodology critiques positivist/objective approaches as masculine; advocates reflexivity, participatory resear
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Triangulation uses multiple methods/data sources to study same phenomenon; methodological pluralism combines qualitative
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Hard statistics (births, deaths, crime, unemployment) are based on recorded events; soft statistics (attitudes, health-s
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Documents (diaries, letters, government reports, laws) are data revealing time periods, values, relationships. Scott's c
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Quantitative research method using written questions (structured and standardised) given to respondents in postal, onlin
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Quantitative method using pre-written, standardised questions in a set order, enabling data to be compared across respon
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Qualitative method using open-ended questions and flexible questioning to explore respondents' meanings, experiences, an
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Qualitative ethnographic method where researcher observes a group from inside the group (overt or covert), participating
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Research methods producing numerical data suitable for statistical analysis: questionnaires, structured interviews, offi
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Research methods producing word-based data emphasising meanings and understandings: unstructured interviews, participant
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Quantitative data collected by government and organisations (crime statistics, census data, school performance tables, e
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Techniques for selecting respondents from a population, including random, stratified, quota, snowball, opportunity, and
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Philosophical approach to sociology asserting that society operates by discoverable laws (like natural sciences), that s
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Philosophical approach to sociology asserting that social reality is constructed through human meanings and interpretati
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The extent to which research findings would be the same if the study were repeated with the same methods; a measure of c
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The extent to which research actually measures what it claims to measure and whether findings accurately represent socia
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The extent to which a research sample reflects the characteristics of the whole population, enabling findings to be gene
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The extent to which research findings from a sample can be applied to the broader population or to other similar context
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Quantitative or qualitative method systematically analysing content (media, documents, texts) for themes, representation
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In-depth qualitative study of single case (person, school, community) enabling detailed understanding but limited genera
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Qualitative method involving in-depth interviewing tracing person's life experiences chronologically, providing understa
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Qualitative method using guided group discussion to explore attitudes, experiences, and generate rich data through group
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Using multiple methods (triangulation) or multiple researchers or multiple data sources to increase validity and overcom
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