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Doing Sociology : Research Methods
(a) Social Science is mainly concerned with the understanding and explanation of human behaviour.
(6) Social scientists use datas to discharge the main concern of their discipline. Data play an important role in the explanation of human behaviour.
(c) Social scientiests have developed methods for systematic collection of data. The historical, comparative and functional methods generate data, which can be interpreted in more than one ways.
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(i) Ideal Type
(ii) Latent Functions
(iii) Integration
(iv) Ideographic
(v) Functionalism
(a) Validity
(b) Structured Interview
(c) Respondents
(d) Subjectivity
(e) Schedule
(f) Secondary Data
(g) Structural Interview
(a) Case Study
(b) Close - Ended Questions
(c) Coding
(d) Rapport
(e) Reliability
(f) Community Study
(g) Concept
(h) Control Group
(i) Questionnaire
(a) Non-Participant Observation
(b) Methodology
(c) Field Study
(d) Interview Bias
(e) Generalization
(f) Interview
(g) Independent Variable
(h) Selection
(i) Participant Observation
(ii) Open-ended Questions
(iii) Corporative Analysis
(iv) Dependent Variable
(v) Observation
(vi) Documents
(vii) Experimental Group
(i) Participant Observation
(ii) Participant as Observer
(iii) Observer as participant, and
(iv) Observer as Observer
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