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      <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:02:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two advantages of using official statistics in sociological research</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1: <br>Can be used to support the findings in primary research/data. Provide reliability.<br>EVAL- Marxism: John Irvine - serves interests of capitalism e.g. unemployment statistics.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>Allows comparisons between groups. One country can be compared to another, one school can be compared to another etc.<br>EVAL- Interpretivism: Maxwell Atkinson - Lack validity - do not represent real things or social facts.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:04:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two practical problems with covert observations</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1:<br>Access - it is much harder to access certain groups or institutions such as schools whereby you need a CRB check as they wouldn't just let anyone in. Also, gangs wouldn't just let anyone in.<br>*James Patrick - Glasgow gang*<br>EVAL- Without access the researcher can't even research what he needs to research.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>Skills/ characteristics - the researcher needs the correct skills/characteristics in order to research the group without them realising that they are being researched.<br>*Donald Machintyre - football*<br>EVAL- They may become too involved and go native. Findings will become subjective.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:13:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two ethical problems with covert research</title>
         <author>katiewoodhead123</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1:<br>Informed consent - if the individuals do not know that they are even being researched they are not able to give consent - they may not want to be researched.<br>*James Patrick - Glasgow gang*<br>EVAL- If they don't have informed consent it gets rid of the Hawthorne effect as they don't know that they are being researched.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>Right to withdraw - again if they are unaware that they are being researched they are not informed that they are in fact do have the right to withdraw whenever and if they wish to do so.<br>*Donald Machintyre - football*<br>EVAL- Ensures that the researcher has an accurate and reliable sample size.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:17:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two ethical problems that sociologists may experience when conducting research</title>
         <author>katiewoodhead123</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1:<br>Findings should be truthful - the researcher cannot alter or change their findings even if the findings didn't bring about the outcome that they wanted.<br>EVAL- Some funding bodies such as the Government may not want findings to be 100% truthful as it may give them a bad reputation.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>Protection from harm - the searcher should ensure that no one is harmed during the research whether that be mentally or physically. None of the research methods should cause harm and they should ensure safety at all times.<br>*Milgram's study - made participants believe administering electric shocks. Mental harm.<br>EVAL- It is impossible to protect participants 100% from harm as some people can be harmed more easily than others.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:20:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two advantages of field experiments in sociological research</title>
         <author>katiewoodhead123</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1:<br>The natural environment setting creates high validity participants will feel more comfortable and will be themselves more rather than acting different due to being nervous.&nbsp;<br>*Rosenhan - 'pseudopatient' - 8 normal researchers - 12 California mental health hospitals - schizophrenia - acted normal - treated mentally ill*<br>EVAL- Time and money - long time and expensive.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>Lessens the Hawthorne effect - more comfortable, more likely to be themselves, more truthful. Not acting up for the researcher.<br>EVAL- Although it may be more truthful and produced truthful findings, as it produces qualitative data, it produces a problem as it is difficult to quantify.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:25:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two theoretical problems with participant observations</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/katiewoodhead123/9trbt52nvygs/wish/174701654</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1:<br>If the researcher chooses to go native: over identifying with the group and becoming a part of it. They stop being objective and become subjective - which will make their findings biased as the are not true findings.<br>*Patrick - Glasgow gang*<br>EVAL- If they become too involved they could become involved in criminal activity too.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>Low reliability - often researchers become too involved with the group and start to emphasise wit them act like them, drop being an actual researcher.<br>*Maurice Punch - study on Amsterdam police - began acting like them too much!*<br>EVAL- Postivists: less reliabile as it's not quantitative data - numbers are much more reliable.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-05-31 20:29:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Outline and explain two ways in which modernist approaches differ from post modernist approaches</title>
         <author>katiewoodhead123</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Paragraph 1:<br>-Science development - scientific ways of thinking.<br>-Positivism - structural approaches.<br>-Durkheim - scientific methods - suicide.<br><br>Paragraph 2:<br>-Relativism.<br>-Modernists - could find objective truth, study society scientifically - Positivist approaches.<br>-Post-modernists - all truth is relative.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-06-01 09:22:36 UTC</pubDate>
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