other methods

• case study


  • detailed examination of a single case (school, family, workplace, individual)
  • may have involved other methods
• longitudinal study


  • study over regular intervals using the same people over a long period of times
• longitudinal eg


  • douglas study in schools
• triangulation


  • more than one method to asses data validity
• triangulation eg


  • Eileen Barker
• methodological pluralism


  • lots of methods
  • comprehensive picture of social life
• ethnographic study


  • study of small groups
• ethnography eg


  • willis: '12 lads
• social facts


  • durkheim: "social facts are things"
  • can be measured + predicted
• social facts eg


  • marriage + unemployment rates