Sociology Education Notes
Methods and Education
Unit 2 – 60%
Primary Resources
Research that is conducted by the Sociologist himself/herself
Examples:
* Questionnaires – Open/Closed, Distribution: Postal or face to face * Interviews- Structured/ Unstructured/ Semi-structured * Observation- Overt/Covert/Participant/ Non-Participant * Experiments- Lab/Field * Sample – Stratified/Random/Quota/Snowball 1. Definition 2. Strengths 3. Weaknesses 4. Examples
Strengths and weaknesses -
Cost and time, validity, reliability, generalisation, and representativeness
Secondary Resources
Research that is conducted by someone else * Internet * Official statistics – Historical documents, diaries, newspapers * Books and Magazines * Other studies by Sociologists/ Psychologists * Parish/Church records
Advantages of secondary resources – * Easy * Quick * Cheap * You are able to compare trends * It may be the only choice(historical)
Disadvantages of secondary resources – * Inaccurate * Incomplete * Written for Sociologists * Cannot guarantee reliability * Cannot guarantee it is valid
Education * State education has been available since 1880 in the UK- School was made compulsory for children up to the age of ten. * Foresters Education Act 1870 declared that school boards could be set up in districts where school were inadequate. * (In 1870 only one in 10 British children were attending school. Compared to 1 in 10 children in Germany) * Local Education Authorities (LEA) 1902, school boards were replaced by 300 schools by which time 20,000 schools and voluntary schools served 5.6 million pupils. * The Fisher Education Act of ``1918 made the state responsible for secondary education and students had to stay until they was 14 years of age – In 1947 it was raised to 15, and it 1972 it was raised to 16. * In November 2004, Every Child Matters was released by the DFES. School were
Unit 2 – 60%
Primary Resources
Research that is conducted by the Sociologist himself/herself
Examples:
* Questionnaires – Open/Closed, Distribution: Postal or face to face * Interviews- Structured/ Unstructured/ Semi-structured * Observation- Overt/Covert/Participant/ Non-Participant * Experiments- Lab/Field * Sample – Stratified/Random/Quota/Snowball 1. Definition 2. Strengths 3. Weaknesses 4. Examples
Strengths and weaknesses -
Cost and time, validity, reliability, generalisation, and representativeness
Secondary Resources
Research that is conducted by someone else * Internet * Official statistics – Historical documents, diaries, newspapers * Books and Magazines * Other studies by Sociologists/ Psychologists * Parish/Church records
Advantages of secondary resources – * Easy * Quick * Cheap * You are able to compare trends * It may be the only choice(historical)
Disadvantages of secondary resources – * Inaccurate * Incomplete * Written for Sociologists * Cannot guarantee reliability * Cannot guarantee it is valid
Education * State education has been available since 1880 in the UK- School was made compulsory for children up to the age of ten. * Foresters Education Act 1870 declared that school boards could be set up in districts where school were inadequate. * (In 1870 only one in 10 British children were attending school. Compared to 1 in 10 children in Germany) * Local Education Authorities (LEA) 1902, school boards were replaced by 300 schools by which time 20,000 schools and voluntary schools served 5.6 million pupils. * The Fisher Education Act of ``1918 made the state responsible for secondary education and students had to stay until they was 14 years of age – In 1947 it was raised to 15, and it 1972 it was raised to 16. * In November 2004, Every Child Matters was released by the DFES. School were