To go home on time and not get a behaviour point: You must complete at least 3 stations and have started a 4 th station by the end of the lesson. Don’t forget to name your station in your books for me to check and award points Total points for today is 68 People who get at least 25 points will get an achievement point

1. Sociology - 2. Difference between Sociology and journalism/psychology – 3. Culture – 4. Norms and values - 5. Socialization - 6. The research process – 7. Quantitative Research - 8. Qualitative Research - 9. Simple Random Sample Systematic Random Sample Stratified Random Sample Quota Sample Snowball Sample - /13

1. Questionnaires - postal 2. Formal Interviews 3. Informal Interviews 4. Group interviews 5. Longitudinal studies 6. Participant observation – covert/overt 7. Non-participant observation 8. Secondary data /8

…  What are the possible ethical issues with doing the following?  Informal Interview –  Group Interview –  Overt non-participant Observation –  Covert participant observation - /5

Once completed ask Ms Myskow for a Mark Sheet to check answer Total points adds up to: /32

Q1

Effects of primary and secondary socialization and how this differs between the sexes. Effects of social and educational policy on life chances, further education and career choices. Q1

Q2

Think about what method you would use to obtain a sample and why are you choosing this method. In order to make your study representative. Why it is important for a sample to be representative? You need to be able to gain a sample which will enable you to make generalisations to the rest of the population. Q2

Q3

Think about the key ethical issues – consent, privacy, confidentiality Think about the age of the research participants – who would you need consent from? How does ethical issues limit the researcher – what would the researcher need to do to make the research ethical. Q3

Q4

Think about… The method you would use and why this method would be good for obtaining the information you require. Why is it better than other methods? Can it make your research more representative or valid? Does it help to overcome ethical issues? Does it help to make generalisation from your study? Q4

Q5

What information can sociological research provide? Social factors – peer relationships, deprivation, ethnicity, gender, class What could educational authorities do with the information? Create policy to address the issues – anti-bullying, funding strategies for high risk social groups Q5

Q6

Definition of official statistics What are they good for – looking at trends, identifying at risk groups, looking for patterns of change over time. But…they are socially constructed, not all truants are recorded as such, they may not reflect the true extent of truancy – why? How can truancy be masked? Q6

Q7

Think about the group being studied. Are they a hard to reach group? What method might be the most suitable? How does the method make the sample representative and your research valid? Would you have to sacrifice on for the other? Q7

Station 5 Create a revision resource for studying society using a revision idea from the board It must support your memory of studying society and be a resource you can use within private revision You will only get full marks if Ms Myskow is satisfied that enough effort and work has gone in to make it a good resource! /10