Mascots by Set 1 and Set 2 (Activity on Vocational Education)

References: Methods of Research

Experiments

Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968)
Sissons
Brown and Gay (1985)
Elton Mayo (1933)
Bandura (1961)
Milgram (1974)

Official Statistics

Durkheim 'Suicide' (1897)
Karl Marx
Shaw and McKay
Rosser and Harris
General Household Survey

Criticisms:
Maxwell Atkinson (1978)
Cicourel (1976)

Survey

Oxford Social Mobility Survey (1982)
Television Survey 'Seven Up'

Historical Sources

Thomas and Znaniecki (1919)
Plummer (1982)
Mies (1993)
Engels (1884)
Laslett (1972)
Aries (1973)

Interviews

Becker (1970)
Laurie Taylor (1984)
Labov (1973)
Elizabeth Bott
Young and Willmott
Ann Oakley
Paul Willis 'Learning to Labour'
Mac an Ghaill 'Young, Gifted and Black'

Observation

Whyte (1955) 'Street corner society'
Patrick (1973) 'a Glasgow gang observed'
John Williams
Ned Polsky
Laud Humphrey
Malinowski
Margaret Mead

Pilot study
Rex and Moore

Longitudinal Research
J.W.B. Douglas (1964)
Berthoud and Gershuny (2000)
Davie '35-Up'

Questionnaires
Willmott and Young
Hannah Gavron (1966)
Rosser and Harris 'The Family and Social Change' (1965)

Sampling

Rosser and Harris
L. Taylor
National Census
Goldthorpe and Lockwood
Moser and Kalton


Key Concepts

Correlation
Causation
Law of human behaviour
Deductive approach
Inductive approach
control
validity
reliability
representativeness
falsification
subjectivity
objectivity

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