Is peer pressure a main cause of truancy?
” This will be my hypothesis. In order to prove or disprove my hypothesis i am going to address the following sub-questions: – “How many students in Britain today are regular truants?” – “What is the most common reason given as to why students truant?” I decided to choose the topic of Social Control and Deviance because it was the topic that i was most interested in. I think that studying the reasons behind such a common problem will be interesting and worthwhile. I also feel that it will be easy to carry out my research, as it will be extremely easy to get hold of existing data and previous sociologists research on this topic. ——————————————————————————————————————— Methodology. In order to carry out my research I am going to conduct a questionnaire to send to a number of different students to complete. Using a questionnaire to gather primary data is a relevant method of research for my coursework, as it wil
