In this DVD, research methods are applied to health as we see sociologists using surveys to study health inequalities, interviews to look at smoking in young women and participant observation to explore gym culture. Three programmes on one DVD:

Questionnaire Survey

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Health Inequalities: This programme shows questionnaire surveys being used to investigate the relationship between social background and health behaviour among young people.

Interviews

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Women and Smoking: Here we see in-depth interviews being used to explore the meaning of smoking among a sample of young working class mothers.

Participant Observation

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Get to the Gym: We follow a sociologist using participant observation to investigate the meaning and effects of gym culture.