Research Method for sociology investigation - The first method I have chosen to use is Questionnaires

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The first method I have chosen to use is Questionnaire’s. I plan to do this by handing out question’s to different type of ethnic groups and gathering the information and putting it into graphs my questionnaire will total of 9 question 4 open and 5 closed questions. I hope this will help all my research aims because my questions would be referring to ethnic groups and attitude towards learning and also pressure or support they get a home.

The strengths of this method will be that it will be quick and easy to fill in and that it there is no cost as for I will be handing them out instead of posting them because it is expensive also as for I am handing them out in my school it is much easier as for the person would know me and speak openly, closed questions would give a quantative data. Another Strength is that they are anonymous so the person wouldn’t feel embarrassed and because there is not much open questions the person wouldn’t have to write a lot.

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The problems with this method will be that people might lie to make them-selves look good or people might not complete the questionnaire because some of the questions are open so they might not want to write, if they do this it would be harder for me to draw conclusions. Another weakness is that It is difficult to go in depth questions and it is also difficult to develop or elaborate their answer.

The second method I have chosen is primary data. I plan to do this by writing about people’s views on ethnicity and education and comparing ...

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