Tag: theory and methods
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#2022Challenge Day 10 Theory and Methods
Then end of week 2 of the #2022 Challenge is upon us as I put up the final response to this week’s challenges. Today we looked at two questions that differed in difficulty. First, ethical considerations of experiments should be quite straightforward, identifying an ethical issue, explaining why it was an issue and using an […]
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#2022Challenge Day 9
Day 9 of the challenge is complete and just one more day to go to the weekend. After this week, we’ll nearly be down to double figures of questions to complete. At present, there are still 102 to go! Throughout the day I have been posting some little hints on how to answer todays questions. […]
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#2022Challenge Day 8 – Theory and Methods
Nearly didn’t manage to get today’s challenge done, but here it is. Sometimes it is tough to maintain daily revision, particularly when faced with other demands, such as work, family and friends. Sometimes unforeseen events may throw you off track somewhat, but it’s worth realising that if that does happen then it’s important to get […]
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#2022Challenge Day 7 Theory and Methods
Today’s questions were again focused on theory and methods – this time looking at practical limitations of observations and reasons sociology cannot be value free. While the former question is relatively straightforward, students need to be careful to mention practical limitations rather that ethical or theoretical ones. A handy way to revise this is through […]
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#2022 Challenge Day 6 Theory and Methods
Bit of a tougher question today – looking at Theory and Methods. The first question on primary research methods… I combined the ‘choice of topic and methods’ with the trend that seems to have occurred for asking about strengths/limitations for either primary or secondary methods that AQA appear to have had over recent papers. It’s […]
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#40Day Challenge Day 27 – Consensus vs Conflict
I may be slightly out of sync in recent days having posted three questions on one day, but today I am focusing on the ten markers for question 6 on papers 1 and 3. There are so many different combinations of questions that it is worth examining as many different types of questions as I […]