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Sociological Research Methods features three short films:
1. Interviews and Questionnaires
How do school students negotiate the pressures to
perform well academically alongside the pressure to popular and cool? Carolyn
Jackson combined questionnaires and interviews to research this question and
this film uses her study, Lads and Ladettes, to illustrate why these methods
are chosen, their respective strengths and limitations and how the strengths of
one can be used to offset the limitations of the other.
Running Time: 07.05
2. Participant Observation
Some research questions can only really be studied
by sociologists getting out of their offices and interacting directly with the
people they want to study. Starting with the famous Chicago School of
sociology, this film looks at some classic studies to illustrate why
participation observation is used in sociology, its major strengths and
limitations and its contribution to sociological understanding.
Running time: 07.10
3. Case Studies
If you go and see your doctor or a therapist, you’ll
become a ‘case’ to them. They’ll want to know a lot more about you. Similarly,
sociological case studies involve putting a social group, an event or a place
‘under the microscope’. This film looks at a classic sociological study, The
Spiritual Revolution, to show why case studies are used in sociology, what they
provide for the sociologist and the extent to which findings can be
generalised.
Running time: 05.00
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