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Component 2: Methods of Sociological Enquiry
Quick questions on Secondary data and official statistics - Eduqas A-Level Sociology Component 2
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What are documents?Show answer
Documents are the interpretivist's secondary source:
What is evaluating with PET?Show answer
As always, evaluate through Practical (cheap, already exists, but may be incomplete or hard to access), Ethical (usually fewer problems, though private documents raise consent issues) and Theoretical (positivists value the reliability of statistics; interpretivists value the validity of documents but distrust constructed statistics) factors.
What is q1?Show answer
Explain the difference between hard and soft official statistics. [6 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Analyse two of Scott's checks for evaluating documents. [12 marks]
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