What are the most important issues facing Britain in 2020?
How valid are Mori’s survey’s as an indicator of the social problems facing Britain today?
social problems
quantitative
quantitative research, research methods
Variables in quantitative reserach
What is the difference between interval/ ratio, ordinal, nominal and categorical variables? This post answers this question! Interval/ ratio variables
The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton: A Brief Summary
‘This book is about contemporary self-tracking cultures, analysed from a critical sociological perspective. It explores how the practices meanings, discourse,
education, Gender and education
Gender and Education: Good Resources
Useful links to quantitative and qualitative research studies, statistics, researchers, and news paper articles relevant to gender and education. These
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
Book summaries, Digital sociology, Pot Luck
Sociomaterial Perspectives on the self in digital networks
Sociomaterial perspectives hold that datafication via digital devices (both personal and public) are fundamentally intertwined with the way we construct
research methods, surveys
What is a Likert Scale?
A Likert* scale is a multiple-indicator or multiple-item measure of a set of attitudes relating to a particular area. The
research methods
Concepts in Quantitative Sociological Research
Concepts are the building blocks of theory, and are the points around which social research is conducted. Concepts are closely
Big data
How will Big Data Change Social Research?
Big data will change the nature of social research – more data will do away with the need for sampling