NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -When conducting research, sociologist must always consider the ethical implications of their research methods. A survey is useful when a sociologist wants to study a large number of people. One reason that closed-ended questions are used in surveys is that the results are relatively easy to quantify.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sociologists generally choose from widely used methods of social investigation: primary source data collection such as survey, participant observation, ethnography, case study, unobtrusive observations, experiment, and secondary data analysis, or use of existing sources.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three main factors that influence what research method a sociologist will use are Practicality, Ethics and Theory. You can remember these as PET. Practical issues relate to time, money, skills and logistics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sociologists examine the world, see a problem or interesting pattern, and set out to study it. They use research methods to design a study-perhaps a positivist, quantitative method for conducting research and obtaining data, or perhaps an ethnographic study utilizing an interpretive framework.