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Describe the pre-testing strategy and the fieldwork monitoring procedure that you propose to implement.

Essay/report describing the key survey features The assessment for this module is a piece of coursework. For this assignment, you are asked to design a survey and write a 2,700-word essay/report describing the key survey features. In the essay you are asked to: 1. Choose a substantive research question and describe your target population. Note […]

Critically discuss Milgram’s experiment, and assess the extent to which the “small-world effect” can be found in the random Poisson network, in the Barabási-Albert “scale-free” network, and in the Watts-Strogatz “small-world” network.

Social Network Analysis – Small world Network, Scale free, random Poisson network The experiment that Stanley Mil-gram conducted in 1967 provided empirical evidence in favor of what is now referred to as the “small-world effect”, namely the fact that the average geodesic distance is small even for very large networks. Critically discuss Milgram’s experiment, and […]

Develop a clear and coherent structure that makes proper use of paragraphs and argumentative signposts.

 Assessment criteria for assignment Demonstrate a developing analytical understanding of sociological theories of social division, inequality, and social problems. Show you can analyse the question, give a clear indication of how you intend to answer it, and reach a suitable conclusion. Show that you have made conscious choices as to what to focus on: that […]