week 2 Introduction to Sociology

Answer the following three questions with as much detail as you possibly can add. Provide cites/in-text cites please along the way and know that each question must be 500 words or more.

All work will be ran through several plagiarism scanners so please keep the standards high and use as much of your own words as possible!

1. Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research methods and come up with an example of each.

2. Define what reliability and validity mean for a research study (and where appropriate think of examples of each).

3. What type of data do surveys gather? For what topics would surveys be the best research method? What drawbacks might you expect to encounter when using a survey?