Research question, How, what, why, to what extent?, Research aim, Sets out what the research is studying, Hypothesis, A statement making a guess about the results, that can be supported or proven wrong, Qualitative data, Words, Quantitative data, Numbers, Primary data, Is collected by the researcher themselves as part of their research., Secondary data, Data that already exists and has been collected by other researchers., Sampling frame, A list of everyone in the population being studied, Target population, Those who you wish to include in your study, Opportunity sampling, The researcher selects participants based on their availability, Systematic sampling, Selecting every Nth person in the sampling frame, Random sampling, The sample is selected by picking people at random, Ethical issue, Morals in the context of Sociological research, raise questions about how to conduct morally acceptable research., Practical issue, Time, cost, access, Positivism, A sociological approach to research that is based on the scientific method, Questionnaire, A written list of pre-determined questions that a sociologist wishes to put to a group of respondents., Open question, Opportunity for an extended response, Structured interview, Questions are fixed and can’t be changed or deviated from, Protection from harm, Responsibility of the researcher to avoid, prevent or minimize harm to others

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