MiC - observations
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 06-04-22 14:10
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- Methods in context - observations
- Generalisable?
- No
- Practical
- Time to plan needed
- Gatekeepers may cause issues with access
- Personal characteristics may affect behaviour
- Examples
- Willis used participant observation in his triangulated study with the Lads and learning to labour
- Validity
- Hawthorne effect my reduce validity
- Power imbalances may reduce validity
- Theoretical perspective
- Interpretivists like observations as they provide a lot of detailed qualitative data
- Ethical
- Privacy - even if researcher had guilt knowledge
- Covert not appropriate as students are vulnerable
- Representativeness
- Sample bias
- Not representativedue to differences because of location and sample
- Small samples used
- Reliability
- Poor reliability as it is unstructed
- Generalisable?
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