cultural anthropology places special emphasis on comparative perspectives that challenge cultural assumptions. Many anthropologists explore problems and issues associated with the complexity of modern societies in local‚ regional and global contexts. Participant observation is one type of data collection method‚ its aim is to gain a close and intimate familiarity with a given group of individuals and their habits through an intensive involvement with people in their cultural environment‚ usually over an
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gather more knowledge on different views and on the group dynamic of the participants‚ focus groups can be very useful. Moreover‚ focus groups are a good method to give a voice to marginalized groups and to gain a better understanding of these at-risk groups with whom researchers had little prior experience. (Morgan‚ 1996) Furthermore‚ focus groups can be very helpful when there are power differences between the participants and decision-makers or professionals‚ and when one wants to explore the degree
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Focus Groups Focus groups are one of many methods utilized by researchers to gather qualitative data. This method consists in simultaneously interviewing a group of people‚ usually 6-8‚ in the same location with a shared factor (Krueger& Casey‚ 2000). They are also a powerful tool to assess services or examine new ideas (Krueger& Casey‚ 2000; McNamara‚ n.d.). Focus groups are an ideal data gathering method for researchers because they allow them to learn the social norms of the community or subgroup
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w w w e tr .X STANDARDS BOOKLET FOR AS/A LEVEL SOCIOLOGY (9699) m eP e ap .c rs om CONTENTS PAGE Introduction Questions and Responses Paper 9699/1 Paper 9699/2 Paper 9699/3 Appendix 1: Question Papers and Mark Schemes Paper 9699/1 Paper 9699/2 Paper 9699/3 Appendix 2: Advice to Students for the Examination 2 5 19 28 58 66 76 95 1 INTRODUCTION This booklet contains answers written by A Level Sociology candidates during the June 2005 examination session. The answers have
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Introduction In order to benefit and fully understand what exactly a certain article is researching or auguring it needs to be analysed and critiqued to the point of understanding so to demonstrate this‚ the author of this material is going to analyse and critique the article‚ Factors influencing the food choices of Irish children and adolescents: a qualitative investigation. To achieve this in a well structured‚ well laid out piece of literature the author will use a checklist devised to critique
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events or tasks participants are willing to share. Talk Aloud and closure interviews are used to clarify questions. Self-observations / Diaries is a method used when it is difficult or impossible to directly access a certain place (like people’s homes) or access is too time consuming. It consists of asking people to provide self-observations about their activities in the form of log reports or diaries‚ for example. Although this method involves the subjectivity of the participants in the data collected
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disagreement is formulated and distributed to the same group of ‘experts’. Advantages of Delphi Technique. Delphi Technique: • Is conducted in writing and does not require face-to-face meetings: - responses can be made at the convenience of the participant; - individuals from diverse backgrounds or from remote locations to work together on the same problems; - is relatively free of social pressure‚ personality influence‚ and individual dominance and is‚ therefore‚ conducive to independent
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reasoning along with the faults of currently used policies may provide significant improvement in antidepressants prescriptions. All the questions and analysis are closely related to the problem and there is no evidence that used form of research faced participants with unethical or unrealistic demands. Appropriate literature search was conducted. Most of the literature sources were timely (only five were more than 10 years old at the time of the research)‚ all of it was relevant to the subject and came from
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body experiences – One participant felt they were out of their body looking down on the scene as surgeons operated and understood the clinical aspect of the scene. One described no longer being in the room • Anger/Fear/Sense of being powerless – One participant remembered vivid anger and being vocal about their situation. The participant described a cycle veering between anger‚ fear and a sense of powerlessness • Peacefulness‚ calm and beauty- 3 participants described peaceful scenes:
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Introduction In a very basic preliminary Sociology module in secondary school; as our group began to look at the broad topic of social behaviour‚ our instructor felt that viewing the popular American film “Mean Girls” would be an excellent way for us as students to start to understand the examples of how social interaction affects our day-to-day lives. Adapted from the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabees‚ (Bradford 2004) which is a guide for parents with adolescent daughters that is based
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