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Secondary Sort
Helping Students Make Sense of Qualitative Secondary Sources When teaching research methods, qualitative secondary sources can sometimes feel harder for students to get hold of than questionnaires or interviews. Students can usually picture a researcher handing out a survey or conducting an interview, but they are often less confident when the method involves analysing documents…
Participant Observation Fishbowl
A Simple Classroom Activity That Makes Observation Methods Click One of the challenges when teaching observation methods is that students often understand the definitions before they understand the difference. They can usually tell you that participant observation involves joining in, while non-participant observation involves watching from the outside. But that does not always mean they…
Reliability Test: Using Video to Teach Reliability in Non-Participant Observation
Teaching research methods can sometimes feel abstract for students. Terms like reliability, observer agreement and structured observation are easy enough to define, but much harder for students to genuinely understand unless they experience the problem for themselves. That is why this reliability test works so well. It takes a key methods issue and turns it…
Top Tips for Sociology.
Clearly when I created this short video I was listening to far too much Nine Inch Nails, but these are my top tips for studying sociology in a handy one minute video… accompanied with an industrial soundtrack.
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