Sociology - 0495 CIE

How Do Sociologists Approach The Study Of Society?

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Before a sociologist can tell us anything about families, schools or crime, they have to make a deeper choice: how should society be studied at all? Is it best examined like a natural science, by counting, measuring and looking for the hidden forces that shape millions of lives at once? Or can you only understand people by getting close to them and seeing the world through their eyes? That single decision shapes everything else, from the method chosen to the kind of evidence collected.

This lesson teaches the two great traditions behind every piece of sociological research. You will meet positivism, with its love of social facts, statistics and patterns, and interpretivism, with its search for meaning and verstehen. You will also learn the toolkit of ideas examiners test again and again: reliability, validity, representativeness and generalisability, plus the traps of bias and the observer effect. Master these and the whole of the research-methods unit falls into place.

Malengo

  1. The scientific method.
  2. A macro view.
  3. Social facts.
  4. Quantitative data.
  5. Causation and correlation.
  6. Patterns and trends.
  7. Objectivity and reliability.
  8. A micro view.
  9. Meanings and motivations.
  10. Qualitative data.
  11. In-depth.
  12. Subjectivity.
  13. Validity and verstehen.
  14. Triangulation.
  15. Longitudinal studies.
  16. Bias.
  17. Interviewer effect.
  18. Hawthorne/Observer effect.
  19. Validity.
  20. Reliability.
  21. Representativeness.
  22. Generalisability.

Maelezo ya Somo

Research methods is the part of the course where examiners reward precise thinking most heavily. Almost every method question turns on the same underlying debate: do we treat society like a science and chase hard numbers, or do we dig for the meanings behind what people do? If you can name the two traditions, use the concepts of reliability and validity correctly, and judge when each approach is most useful, you have the key that unlocks the highest marks across this whole unit. Get the foundations here and the methods that follow make sense.

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  1. Which approach studies society scientifically, using measurable social facts to find patterns? A. Interpretivism B. Positivism C. Feminism D. Postmodernism Answer: B
  2. The German term for an empathetic understanding of social action, gained by seeing the world as those studied see it, is: A. verstehen B. anomie C. consensus D. operationalisation Answer: A
  3. A method that gives the same results when repeated by another researcher is said to have high: A. validity B. representativeness C. reliability D. subjectivity Answer: C
  4. People changing their behaviour because they know they are being observed is known as the: A. interviewer effect B. Hawthorne effect C. halo effect D. ripple effect Answer: B
  5. Combining two or more methods so the strengths of one offset the weaknesses of another is called: A. operationalisation B. triangulation C. stratification D. generalisation Answer: B

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