Sociology Archives – Page 17 of 39

Japan’s Declining and Ageing Population

Karl Thompson / January 11, 2018

Last year Japan’s population declined by 300, 000, to 126 million, and and its population is predicted to decline to […]

Social class, wealth and income inequalities

A Sociological Analysis of Cruise Ships

Karl Thompson / January 10, 2018

Venice is a city of 55.000 inhabitants, which is swamped on some days by more than 40, 000 cruise ship

research methods, surveys

What is a Likert Scale?

Karl Thompson / January 9, 2018

A Likert* scale is a multiple-indicator or multiple-item measure of a set of attitudes relating to a particular area. The

Revision

A few thoughts on revising research methods

Karl Thompson / January 8, 2018

Sociology_Revision_Surveys Here’s a general plan of how I tend to revise each research method with my students, for A level

Big data, Book summaries

Big Data: Controlling its Use

Karl Thompson / January 6, 2018

Changes in the way we interact and communicate lead to changes in the way we govern ourselves and just as

research methods

Validity refers to the extent to which an indicator (or set of indicators) really measure the concept under investigation. This post outlines five ways in which sociologists and psychologists might determine how valid their indicators are: face validity, concurrent validity, convergent validity, construct validity, and predictive validity.