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Sociology studies
The Census
Takes place every 10 years with last one collected in 2021
The census asks questions about you, your household and your home. In doing so, it helps to build a detailed snapshot of our society” (cross-sectional study)
Highly representative as the sample is every household in the UK
Self-completion questionnaire (mostly online now)
Birth cohort study
When people from certain age groups are studied to explore how their lives change and develop as they age. University College London have a Centre For Longitudinal Studies (CLS) that conducts national longitudinal cohort studies in the UK.
Follows the lives of 17,415 babies born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1958
The cohort has been followed up at ages 7, 11, 16, 23, 33, 42, 44, 46, 50, 55 and most recently at age 62 in 2020/21
Data from the most recent sweep is still being analysed, but in 2013, 9137 people took part
The main data collection methods used during the study have included questionnaires, structured interviews, cognitive assessments, clinical assessments and nurse measurements
Boys, Girls and Achievement
Becky Francis (2000) - gender socialisation within education
Francis used a mixture of classroom observations and semi-structured interviews. Francis used semi-structured interviews with 100 pupils (fifty girls and fifty boys). These were based on some ‘core questions’ that formed the ‘Interview Schedule’.
Girls were still marginalized within schools, and “male underachievement” is a generalization. However, girls are more ambitious about their future careers than in the past, and concerns about discrimination actually spur them on to succeed.
Durkheim's study of suicide
(1887) Study only used secondary data, Durkheim chose this topic as he thought he could prove suicide can be explained through social facts. He used official stats to compare suicide rates from different countries and groups.
He noticed patterns- e.g., the divorced had higher rates than the married
If suicide were a personal act, and not influenced by social factors, then these consistent patters would be coincidence
Young, Gifted and Black (1988)
Overt participant (questionable) observation
Conducted two studies in inner-city educational institutions where he worked as a teacher
The first study looked at the relations between white teachers and two groups of male students with anti-school values – the “Asian Warriors” and the “African Caribbean Rasta Heads”
The second study looked at a group of black female students, of African Caribbean and Asian parentage, called the “Black Sisters”.
Mac an Ghaill was only able to do this research because of his position as a teacher, it would have been practically impossible otherwise.
Reliability and Representativeness are both low.
He became friendly with the students and they visited his home regularly (wouldn’t be allowed today)
The research brought him into conflict with some other members of staff, as he found himself becoming the defender of ethnic minority students against what he perceived to be a racist institution.