Sociology A-Level
Reliability and Validity
What Reliability and Validity means in Sociology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Reliability and Validity
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Reliability refers to the consistency and replicability of quantitative methods, whereas validity refers to the truthfulness and depth of qualitative methods.
Topics that use Reliability and Validity
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- Methodological Pluralism
- Operationalisation and Sampling
- Positivism and Interpretivism
- Primary data
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- Secondary data
- Non-participant observation
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