Abstract

All the exam boards include numerous questions to test your knowledge and understanding of these areas. Questions are wide-ranging. Some boards provide stimulus-response questions and others have compulsory sections on either or both areas. It is important therefore to be familiar with the following: 1 The origins of sociology. 2 Positivism and phenomenology. 3 Factors affecting choice of method in research. 4 Methods of data collection: (a) Social surveys. (b) Sampling techniques. (c) Interviewing. 5 The reliability of data. 6 Secondary sources of data. 7 Sociology and ideology: can sociology be value free? 8 Theories in sociology. 9 The relationship between theory and method: (a) Types of studies and relevant methods. 10 The sociological perspectives: (a) Functionalism. (b) Marxism. (c) Phenomenology. (d) Ethnomethodology. 11 Observational methods. 12 Sociology, art or science? 13 The comparative and the experimental methods. 14 Social problems and social policy.

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