Sociology · May / June 2018 · Paper 12 · Question 1

Source A Diane Reay and her colleagues wanted to study people going to university in the UK, who were not from traditional middle class backgrounds. The researchers studied people from six different universities as their sample population. They gave out 502 questionnaires and followed this up with 53 interviews with students. The qualitative interviews were thought not to be representative of the whole sample population. The students were given a free choice to define their own ethnicity. The result was not as the researchers expected. In the UK the majority of the people are ‘White’ but less than half of the sample defined their ethnicity this way. One interviewee defined himself by his nationality rather than by his ethnicity. Adapted from Moore et. al. Sociology

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