Sociology Method

Method:

The topic I’m looking at is on single parent and why it is increasing. I’m trying to get a number of information on single parenthood, and the impacts on the children being raised by a single parent.
The research method which I’m carrying out is a questionnaire. I chose a questionnaire because it is an easy way to find large amounts of information in a short time and it is also easy to compare results. It saves a lot of time.
I first did a pilot questionnaire which was not very successful because of error and misunderstanding in the questionnaire.
For my final questionnaire I used a representative sample because I wanted my questionnaire to represent everyone, I also selected people at random. In my pilot questionnaire I made sure that I included gender, age and ethnicity because it is important that I get different points of views from female and male because both genders have different opinions but some might be similar. I included age because different ages hav...