The methods of research a sociologist uses depends above all on the topic being studied. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the possible research methods a sociologist might use to study various different topics, each method used depends greatly on the topic studied and will determine the type of results that are achieved. I will investigate a few of these methods and provide an example to show how this method was …showed first 75 words of 959 total…

…showed last 75 words of 959 total…is often very different to another's. What the researcher meant by a particular question could be perceived in a different way. It would have been more effective to have open questions and allow the subject to give their own descriptions, for instance instead of asking "is it long?" the researcher could ask "how long is it?" this way the results would be more accurate although they would take longer to gain any comparable results from.