Have one in five Britons really considered going vegan?
According to a recent poll (1) of 1000 people, one in five Britons have considered going vegan, which is 20% […]
research methods
A level sociology exam practice, A-levels, Exams and revision advice, research methods
Research Methods Practice Questions for A-level sociology
AQA A-level sociology Papers 1 and 3 will both contain an ‘outline and explain’ 10 mark (no item) question on sociological
A level sociology exam practice, A-levels, Exams and revision advice, private documents, research methods
Outline and explain two practical problems of using documents in social research (10)
There are a lot of documents available and it can be time consuming to analyse them qualitatively Taking news for
research methods, Statistics
Outline and explain two practical advantages of using official statistics
Official Statistics are a quick and cheap means of accessing data relevant to an entire population in a country. They
Exams and revision advice, research methods
Outline and explain two practical problems which may affect social research (10)
One practical problem may be gaining access Analysis/ development – Deviant and criminal groups may be unwilling to allow researchers
positivism, research methods
Outline and Explain Two Reasons Why Interpretivists Prefer to Use Qualitative Research Methods (10)
A model answer to a possible 10 mark question which could appear on the AQA’s A-level papers 1 or 3.
Families and Households, Feminism, Sex and gender, surveys
How equal are men and women in relationships these days? Student survey results
Women who do the lioness’s share of the housework, but men and women seem to have equal control over the
experiments, research methods
Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment
In this famously notorious experiment college students volunteered to take on the role of either prison guards or prisoners and
research methods
Criticisms of Quantitative Research
Bryman (2016) identifies four criticisms of quantitative research: Quantitative researchers fail to distinguish people and social institutions from the world
research methods
The Four Main Concerns of Quantitative Research
Quantitative researchers generally have four main preoccupations: they want their research to be measurable, to focus on causation, to be