Socialisation, identity and methods of researchThis topic area has two central aims:
first, to examine the role of socialisation in the creation of social identities; second, to introduce the basic methods of research, including concepts that can be used to evaluate the relevance and accuracy of sociological findings.
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Key concepts: You need to know the correct spellings and definitions of all of these terms!
• action theory • beliefs • capitalism • case studies • causation • coercion • collective conscience • comparative analysis • conformity • consumerism • content analysis • control group • correlation • covert observation • critical theory • cross-sectional surveys • culture • customs • demand characteristics • determinism • domain assumptions • economic determinism • ethical issues • ethnographic • ethnomethodology • experimental group • falsification • feminist theory (liberal, radical, Marxist, black feminist theory) • field experiments • forces of production and relations of production • free will • functionalist theory • functions, manifest and latent functions • gender • globalisation • Hawthorne effect • hypothesis • hypothetico-deductive method • ideology • interactionist • interpretivism • interviews (structured, semi-structured, unstructured and group interviews) • laboratory experiments • longitudinal surveys • looking-glass self • macrosociology • Marxist theory • mass culture (popular culture) • methodological pluralism • microsociology • modern industrial society • modernity and postmodernity • nature versus nurture debate • neo-Marxist theory • non-participant observation • norms • objectivity • official statistics • organic and mechanical solidarity • operationalisation • over-socialised conception of man • overt observation • paradigms • participant observation • personal documents • phenomenology • pilot studies • positivism • post-modernism • power • primary data • qualitative data • questionnaires • reliability • representativeness • research funding • researcher bias • researcher effect • respondent • roles • sampling and sampling techniques • sampling error • scientific method • secondary data • semiology • significant others • social change • social construction of reality • social control • social desirability • social engineering • social identity • social order • social policy • social problems • social sanctions • social self • socialisation • structuralist • structuration • sub-culture • subjectivity • survey • symbolic interactionism • traditional society • triangulation • validity • value consensus • value judgement • value-freedom • values • variables • verstehen • Weberian theory |