Wednesday 18 March 2009

Sociology-about researching!

Comment (in your blog) the problems in researching schools and teachers - and the opportunities that the internet offers for sociologists carrying out such research.

The problems:
1)In fact,i wanted to find our school-EF Brittin Academy in the site firstly but i failed to find it. Then,i wanted to search Oxford School but a lot of schools appeared with a lot of strange names which made me confused that which Oxford School is the real Oxford that i wanted to know. Therefore,we can see that the information provided by the internet is not sufficient indeed and can't cover all the things. However,sometimes the information will be too much for us to organise and classify.
2) Because the internet is not a real world that everybody can upload things to the website and we don't know they are realistic or not.
3) As a good way to advertise themselves,some teachers and schools may praise themselves by saying a lot of good things in the website. Even some comments on the website can be fake that they just ask people to do that.
4) Some information on the website will not update regularly which can't reflect the situation now but just the past,such as the secondary data that based on the past research.

However,benefits are existing.
1) Unlimited information like official statistics that can help the researchers to get a better understanding.
2) Researchers can share the information in the same time or look at different types of information meanwhile.
3) It takes shorter time and less costs of the researchers to get the information.

Getting from information on the website is a kind of researching method but there is bound to be conflicts when using the data. It is just like a discussion between the secondary&primary sources and quantitative &qualitative data.

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