Posted: January 31st, 2015

Brief referenced introduction to the concept of Cultural Capital in relation to Social Class and evaluation of recent published research

It is in the form of a report.
This is what the teacher has outlined:

1: Brief referenced introduction to the concept of Cultural Capital in relation to Social Class and evaluation of recent published research
(BORDIEU- cultural capital)

2: Your research question- Research question is An investigation into the relationship between social class, cultural capital and theatres, concerts and galleries.

3: Brief account of methodological approach and method used and rationale in relation to research aims-

4: 5. Critical evaluation of methodology, method and data analysis used drawing on methodology literature, existing research and critically discuss:

Strengths and weaknesses of interpretivist methodology & interview method in relation to your research aim

Data analysis with conclusions. You must

5: include samples of coding four interviews used in your research: Coding developed in WORD. You will find it useful to illustrate your answer with screenshots from your Word coding and boxes of extracts from your WORD coding.

Discussion and conclusion

– Information.
The interviews took place in a quiet room and were recorded on my phone. I interviewed 4 people within my sociology group.
The methodoligical approach that was used was interpretvism. and the method used was interviews. As a group we came up with the research question

ESSENTIAL SOURCES TO USE :
Bryman, A. (2008) Social Research Methods. Nigel King and Christine Horrocks (2010) Interviews in qualitative research
Tim May (2001) social research: issues methods and process
Any other sources you yourself use.