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Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess the claim that a sociologist's choice of research method is based mainly on practical and ethical factors Research methods are ways in which a sociologist investigates a topic, they are then able to analyse the situation and draw conclusions and results from it. There are different types of research methods, qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Qualitative methods are more interpretive and may include open interviews, observation and open questions in questionnaires. On the other hand, quantitative methods are scientific and may use surveys, closed interviews and statistics. Ethical problems in research are problems of morality, where the sociologist doing the research potentially violates or breaks people's trust or affects them through the research in some way. Practical factors refer to the efficiency of the research in terms of time, function, cost and usefulness. Laud Humphrey's has been criticised for his covert research into...

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