Methodology of Research
The method that I will be using to research my area of sociology will
be a
structured questionnaire, it will be structured so that the candidates
stick to the
questions that they are asked and do not write about irrelevant
matters. I will first of
all produce a pilot questionnaire and send it round to a test group of
people, and
hopefully see whether or not I am able to obtain the relevant
information that I need
for my research with the questions that I have asked my targeted group
of people. If
the questionnaire provides me with my needed information, I will the
produce more
and send them out to a larger sample of people and obtain my primary
data in that
way. However if my questionnaire does not give me the sufficient
information I will
have modify my questions to get the sort of answers that I am looking
for.
Before I gave the questionnaire to my candidates I first of all asked
them if they
would not mind taking part in my questionnaire for my sociology
research. If they
agreed to take part in it I then briefly told them what it was about
and the sort of
questions that it would be asking them. So if they decided to proceed
with the
questionnaire I handed it to them however if they felt that after all
they did not want
to take part I respected their wishes and found another candidate. To
make certain that
the candidates are notified that the information that they give to me
is confidential and
will not be used for any other purpose other than my research I
attached a statement at
the top of the questionnaire expressing my...
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...s to see
if it was sufficient enough. Once I was pleased with the outcome I
then handed out the
questionnaire to 30 female students and 30 male students so that the
gender was fair,
however I did pick my candidates at random, this is because I feel
that this way I can
obtain a wider spread group of people and hopefully receive a range of
answers for
my questions.
A problem that I may have come across was that it is hard to decide
who to class as
living in a working class family and who to class as living in a
middle class family.
So, to overcome this problem I will either be very clear and precise
with no leniency
as to what I class as working class household or I widen my research
and include the
family structure of a middle class family and the mother’s role within
it.
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