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What does Valid mean?
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A true piece of evidence or a respondents point of view etc...
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What does reliability mean?
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Accuracy
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What does open question mean?
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Allowing the respondent to put forward his/her own answers
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What does closed question mean?
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Requiring the respondent to choose bettween a number or a given answer
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What does overtly mean?
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People knowing you are doing the research
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What does covertly mean?
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People not knowing your doing the research
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What does structed interview mean?
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The interviewer reads the standard questions from a pre set list
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What does unstructed interviw mean?
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Interviewees have the oppurtunity to talk at length using their own words and ideas
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What does participant observation mean?
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The participant knows the researcher is there
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What does non participant observation mean?
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The participant doesnt know the researcher is there
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What does quantitative data mean?
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Datawhich is represented in a numerical form
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What does qualitative data mean?
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Data which is represented in words
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What does intergration mean?
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The process by which someone is assimilated (becomes part of) society
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What does socialisation mean?
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The process by which norms and values are transmitted
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What does social solidarily mean?
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Shared views/beliefs of a society that help bind society together
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What does value consensus mean?
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The shared value of society
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What does collective conscience mean?
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The group mind. The shared conscience of a group/society
eg- 10 commandments |
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What does egocentric mean?
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To believe your the centre of everything
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What does functionlism mean?
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How the jobs of society make it a society
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Who was Talcott Parsons?
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He invented functionlism
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What does patriarchy mean?
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Male dominance over women
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What are lone parent families?
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A parent with a child/children living on their own
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What are cohabiting couple families?
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A married couple with no children
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What does ethnicity mean?
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Characteristics of social groups who have a sense of shared identity based on cultural, religious or traditional influences
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What does ethnic minority mean?
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People who are from a different ethnic background to the general population
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What does ethnic majority
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The ethnicity of the general population
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What does role conflict mean?
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Conflict between the role of a wife and mother and the pressures of working your way up the career lader
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What does secondary socilisation mean?
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The process by which a person learns the cultre at school
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What does formal control mean?
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Detentions etc... Punishments and rules to keep students in order and school
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What does informal control mean?
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How to wear uniform, how much homework you admit to doing
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What is the hidden curriculum?
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What we learn from the way the school is organised
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What does informal learning mean?
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Things you learn without even realising it
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What does elaborated code mean?
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Spelling out the many meanings which are left un spoken by the resticted code
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What does labelling mean?
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When you label someone as a certain type of person
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What does restricted code mean?
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Short hand speech
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What does self fulfilling prophecy mean?
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When someone lives up to the label they have been given
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What does ethnography mean?
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Studying groups of people through observation
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What does formal economy mean?
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Official paid employment with a payslip
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What does informal economy mean?
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Work which is not officially recorded eg with a pay slip
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What does hidden economy mean?
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Work done for cash in hand
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What does communal economy mean?
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Volutry work
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What does glass ceiling mean?
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A invisible barrier to promotion
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What does vertical segregation mean?
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In some occupations men and women are found with different jobs
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What does invisible walls mean?
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Segregate/divide female and male occupations
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What does pressure group mean?
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A group a people with the same interests/concerns
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What is a protective pressure group?
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Groups who seek to defend/protect their members interests
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What is a promotional pressure group?
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Groups who seek to promote a cause/acheive a particular set of changes or campaign on a specific issue
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What does unemployment mean?
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People who have been out of work for more than 24hrs
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