Methodology of Research

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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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