Case Studies

Question 1

First used a formal and structured interview technique to study language of black American children , however children seemed tongue tied and linguistically deprived , until he adopted a more relaxed informal style , sitting on the floor , having a friend present , the children spoke freely and compently

Answer 1

William labov

Question 2

Paul Willis

Answer 2

Researched 12 working class lads who formed anti school subcultures and embraced failure which led them to working class jobs , used ethnographic methods like observation and interviews . The lads saw through the system that they couldn’t be socially mobile and rejected education

Question 3

Critique of Paul Willis

Answer 3

McFarland thinks his research is too class orientated and overlooks gender and race

Question 4

Violence against wives

Answer 4

Dobash and dobash , used in depth unstructured interviews with 109 women who had experienced physical abuse

Question 5

Research on adolescents in samoa

Answer 5

Margret meads, couldn’t speak the language of the girl she was interviewing , who deliberate misled her

Question 6

The hite report on female sexuality

Answer 6

Shere hite Sent 100,000 postal questionnaires and only got a response of 4500 , 98% said dissatisfied with their marriage and 75% having an affair