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Homework Activity: Sampling a Population
Sampling in Practice: A Homework Activity That Helps Students Move Beyond Definitions Sampling is one of those areas in sociology where students can often learn the key terms without fully understanding what they mean in practice. Many can memorise the difference between random, stratified, quota, opportunity and snowball sampling, but struggle when asked to apply…
Bringing Theoretical Perspectives to Life in the Sociology Classroom
One of the biggest challenges when teaching theory and methods is helping students see that research methods are not simply technical tools sitting in a box waiting to be picked up. Too often, students learn that questionnaires are quantitative, interviews are qualitative, and observations can be either overt or covert, but they do not always…
What Is the Researcher Doing?
Activity for Introducing Participant Observation One of the most effective ways to teach participant observation is to move students quickly from definition to application. Rather than beginning with a long teacher explanation, this activity asks students to examine realistic research situations and work out what kind of observation is taking place. In doing so, they…
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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