Validity, Reliability, and Sampling

Class: Research Methods for Sociology

Validity, Reliability, and Sampling

The Forum includes several steps:

• 1. Identify a "different" research problem that would be best studied using a non-probability sample. 
• 2. Discuss why this research problem is best studied using a non-probability sample, and what type of non-probability sample you would likely use.
• 3. Find a peer-reviewed journal article (no more than five years old) related to that research problem.
• 4. Discuss the sampling strategy/process used in the article.  What details are included, and what information regarding the sampling was ignored?