Sociology- Methods Oct 2021

What is meant by the term 'validity'?

• A practical issue in sociology that allows you to get a true picture of what is really going on within the research.

• An ethical issue in sociology that allows you to get a true picture of what is really going on within the research.

• A theoretical issue in sociology that allows you to get a true picture of what is really going on within the research.

• A theoretical issue that allows the study to be repeated with similar results

What is meant by reliability

• When you can repeat the study and get similar results

• Where the study can be replicated and similar results obtained

• When the study has a large sample

• When the study is representative

What is meant by the term 'representative'?

• When the study can be repeated

• When you get a true picture of what is going on within the research

• When the sample size is large enough to get a real picture of what is going on

• Representative nature

What category would anonymity fall into?

• Practical issue

• Ethical issue

• Theoretical issue

One of the advantages associated with postal and email questionnaires is detachment. What is meant by detachment?

• Where the sociologist is closer to the research that is going on

• Where the sociologist does not directly get involved with the research

• Where the sociologist supports the respondent

• Where the sociologist ensure that there are no ethical issues

Tick all of the primary research methods that we have studied so far

• Field experiments

• Experiments

• Questionnaires

• Official statistics

A ____________ experiment is a type of experiment that is conducted in the respondents own setting

What were the names of the sociologists who conducted a field experiment to explore teacher's perceptions of labelling?

• Milgram

• Rosenthal and Jacobson

• Willis

• Dawkins

Tick all of the practical issues

• Time

• Space

• Gate keepers

• Cost implications

• Validity

Tick all of the ethical issues

• Time

• Space

• Harm to participants

• Deception

• Informed consent