Suggestions for Project Work

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Practical experience of trying to answer a question and collecting evidence systematically provides valuable hands-on experience that introduces you to both the excitement and difficulties of sociolog

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1. Technical criteria - the degree of compatibility between the research question and method 2. Practical considerations - time available, resources (people and materials), and circumstances in which

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A survey involves asking a relatively large number of people (30, 100, 2000+) the same fixed set of questions, either through personal interviews or self-filled questionnaires. Main advantage: It can

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1. Questions are already fixed with no on-the-spot adjustments possible 2. If questions are misunderstood, wrong or misleading results can occur 3. Interesting responses cannot be followed up with fur

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Interviews are always conducted in person with much fewer people (5-40), can be structured (pre-determined questions) or unstructured (topics pre-decided, questions emerge in conversation), and may be

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Advantages: Flexible - promising topics can be pursued in detail, questions can be refined, clarifications can be sought Disadvantages: Cannot cover large numbers of people, limited to views of a sele

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Observation involves systematically watching and recording what happens in a chosen context. It's challenging because you must pay careful attention without pre-judging what's relevant, and sometimes

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If researching how different classes use open spaces, it's significant that poor people or middle-class people never enter the space or are never seen in it. Their absence is as meaningful as the pres