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Analyse how a sociologist might research different aspects of family life, evaluating the effectiveness and ethics of different methods.
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Analyse how a sociologist might research different aspects of family life, evaluating the effectiveness and ethics of different methods. This essay sets out to cover possible ways of researching the family including case studies. The research methods I will be using in this essay are questionnaires, interviews and observation, which are types of primary research. There are many different types of research methods, two types being primary and secondary research. Primary research is carrying out the research from scratch without using any previous research. Secondary research is using information that has already been collected. The first research method I am going to write about is a study by Young and Willmott called The Symmetrical Family. In this study, men and women were asked to keep a record on the time they spent on various tasks. This method is a questionnaire, which would be primary research because they gathered the information themselves and...
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