A brief summary table covering structural and action, consensus and conflict, and modern and post-modern perspectives on crime and deviance. […]
If a couple were to discuss honestly how a modern ‘pure relationship’ is likely to pan out then the conversation
In Global Culture Industry Lash and Lury argue that things have moved on since the days of Adorno and Horkheimer’s
The middle classes and especially those in creative industries are more likely to be on twitter, but finding this out
Experiments aim to measure the effect which an independent variable (the ’cause’) has on a dependent variable (‘the effect’). The
Erving Goffman’s classic 1959 work, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, is one of the most influential texts in
Social Surveys, conducted by various organizations, are standardized procedures to gather information from large populations. Using methods like questionnaires and structured interviews, they collect data on diverse topics. Prominent examples include the England and Wales Census and the British Social Attitudes Survey. These surveys can involve pre-coded or open-ended questions. While useful for broad social studies, surveys can impose researcher’s perspective or encounter interviewer bias, reducing their reliability and necessitating careful interview design and conduct.
This post looks at the advantages and disadvantages of using formal (quantitative) content analysis and qualitative textual and thematic analysis
Sociologists use a wide range of research methods to study social life, from large-scale surveys to in-depth interviews. The choice
Here’s an interesting correlation between the quantities of books published on Pornography and Patriarchy… This is from Google ngram viewer,