Tag: Summary
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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 (and eradicated the biases that emerge with sampling); big data analysis will be messier, but this will lead to more insights and allow for greater depth of analysis; and finally it will move us away…
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Experiments in Sociology – Revision Notes
Definitions, key features and the theoretical, practical and ethical strengths and limitations of laboratory and field experiments applied to sociology (and psychology). Also covers key terms related to experiments. post has been written to help students revising for the research methods aspect of their second year A-level exams. Experiments – The Basics: Definitions/ Key Features…
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An Overview of the Education Module for A Level Sociology
The AQA Specification – Education Students need to know…. The role and functions of the education system, including its relationship to the economy and to class structure (the perspectives: functionalism etc.) Differential educational achievement of social groups by social class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary society. Relationships and processes within schools, with particular reference to…
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Erich Fromm’s ‘Fear of Freedom’- A Summary
A summary of Erich Fromm‘s ‘Fear of Freedom’, first published in the UK in 1942 This book is an analysis of the ‘character structure of modern man’, a work in progress published because of the urgent needs of the times. The thesis of the book is that modern man, freed from the bonds of pre-individualistic…
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Marxist Theories of Crime – A Summary
Covering crimogenic capitalism, selective law enforcement and the ideological functions of crime control