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* Evaluate the various methods of research available to sociologist. This essay will focus on five of the core methods of research available to sociologists and their advantages and disadvantages as well as briefly look at the practical, theoretical and ethical issues involved in collecting and analyzing data. 'Methods of research are the actual techniques or procedures used to gather and analyse the data related to some research question or hypothesis' (Blaikie, 1993: 23). There are numerous techniques and procedures, which make up the sociological toolbox. It includes surveys, experiments, ethnography and case studies, to name but a few. These are referred to as primary data. Secondary data is also used such as official statistics, historical documents, personal life documents and the mass media. A second way of classifying research methods is 'quantitative' and 'qualitative'. The former produces numerical or statistical data and the later produces data about the personal experience and...

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