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  • Socialisation

    Socialisation is the process whereby an individual learns the norms and values of a culture. Giddens and Sutton (2017) provide a lengthier definition: For sociologists socialization is the process whereby the helpless human infant becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of the culture into which he or she was born. Socialization of…

  • Secondary Qualitative Data in Sociology

    Secondary Qualitative Data is information that already exists in written or audio visual format. Secondary Qualitative Data typically take the form of documents – and there are a huge variety of them. They include government reports, newspapers, novels, letters, diaries, as well as pictures, and television and radio output. It is useful to distinguish between official…