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  • The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life – A Summary

    A summary of The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, and a brief discussion of its relevance to A level Sociology.  Executive Summary The best way to understand human action is by seeing people as actors on a ‘social stage’ who actively create an impression of themselves for the benefit of…

  • Social Surveys – An Introduction to Structured Questionnaires and Structured Interviews

    A Social Survey  involves obtaining information in a standardised from large groups of people. The main survey methods are questionnaires and structured interviews. Surveys are carried out by a wide range of organisations such as government departments, schools and colleges, businesses, charities, and market research and consumer groups. You may well have been stopped in…

  • Content Analysis of The Mass Media in Social Research

    This post looks at the advantages and disadvantages of using formal (quantitative) content analysis and qualitative textual and thematic analysis of media sources. (NB For some reason, all of the AQA approved text books only seem to expect you to know about content analysis applied to film/ TV and Print Media, rather than applying this…

  • Research Methods in Sociology – An Introduction

    An introduction to research methods in Sociology covering quantitative, qualitative, primary and secondary data and defining the basic types of research method including social surveys, experiments, interviews, participant observation, ethnography and longitudinal studies. Why do social research? The simple answer is that without it, our knowledge of the social world is limited to our immediate and…

  • Our waning interest in Pornography and Patriarchy?

    Here’s an interesting correlation between the quantities of books published on Pornography and Patriarchy… This is from Google ngram viewer, which searches the content of five million books. If you take it at face value, then public interest in both pornography and patriarchy peaked around 1995, and have been declining at a similar rate ever…

  • Evaluating the Functionalist Perspective on Education

    A range of quantitative and qualitative evidence which both supports and criticises the Functionalist view of education.

  • 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…

  • Exploring the Experience of Poverty in the UK

    some documentaries providing qualitative evidence on the experience of poverty in the U.K.

  • Social Class and Educational Achievement Essay Plan

    Evaluate the extent to which home based, rather than school – based factors account for social class based differences in educational achievement (30)   Focusing on home background initially, we can look at how material and cultural factors might affect a child’s education. The lower classes are more likely to suffer from material deprivation at…

  • The Hyper Globalist View of Globalisation

    hyper globalists argue globalisation is a positive process of economic growth and increasing prosperity for the majority and the spread of democracy.