Compulsory: Social Research Methods (Mr Pedro's Revision REVISED further by me)
- Experiments - Artificial Situations (high in reliability)
· Lab experiment --- controlled room
· Field experiment --- outside the controlled room
- Surveys - Obtain data using questionnaires (high in validity)
·self-completion
-open-ended [a qualitative data]
Adv: Can answer freely and explain further, may get in-depth answers
Disadv: Hard to tabulate, bias may occur, people may misinterpret the questions
-closed [a quantitative data]
Adv: Easy to tabulate, less bias may occur
Disadv: In some cases, bias occur (in giving the questions for example). It cannot have in-depth answers
- Observation - studying a group or situation
·non participant
- e.g. observing a class
·participant
- being a part of a group , e.g gang member.
1. Overt - tell the group wanted to be researched so that they know
Adv: No ethical issues (and no need to further explain), the group may even help us, accurate as we may record
Disadv: Hawthrone effect may occur
2. Covert - secretly being a part of a group (the point is that the group doesn't know)
Adv: No hawthrone effect since we are seen as a member
Disadv: Difficult to join gangs (need trust), cannot record means not so accurate, when a bad thing is done by the group we decide whether to tell or not, if we tell means that our identity will be uncovered.
- Others -
Primary data - our own data (high in validity)
Secondary data - other else's data (low in validity)
Quantitative data - data in numbers
Qualitative data - data in words
Validity - high accuracy of data that really describes the reality
Reliability - using same method and gets the same results (not sure here)
Second Topic:Social Stratification - Revision by Mr Anba's web diagram, easy to use by me.
This totally is easy. You know this, you know the rest. It is quite the relationship.
Gender
Feminism - differences between males & females expectations
Life chances
Education/health (better education better health better life chances)
Job, status (higher status higher payment higher life chances)
Peer groups (good peer groups better future higher life chances)
Ethnicity
Divisions in a society based on race
Meritocracy in same societies (e.g. in Singapore) << not sure what it is Poverty
Cultural theories
Structural theories
Age
Differences between young and old
How society treat young and old people differently?
Others (real topic)
Is class important now? - proletariatism, embourgeoisiement
List of class: upper, middle , working, underclass(absolute poverty)
Achieved(get by own) or Ascribed(inherited) status?
Social mobility - the ability to move upwards in class
That's all
The rest is not that hard... since it's the newest term 3 and 4 topics :D
We are all families (haha)
Good luck on tomorrow's Sociology FYE!
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