PET's
- Created by: Rawleka
- Created on: 07-01-21 12:09
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- PET's
- PRACTICAL
- Time & Money
- Research may be cheaper but may take longer
- Requirements of Funding Bodies
- Research institutes/businesses may require the results in a certain form
- So the researcher has to use a method capable of producing such data
- Research institutes/businesses may require the results in a certain form
- Personal Skills/Characteristics
- May affect the researcher’s ability to use diff methods
- Subject Matter
- Some groups/subjects are harder to study than others
- Research Opportunity
- Opportunities can occur unexpectedly & so may not be possible to us structured methods
- Time & Money
- ETHICAL
- Informed consent
- Pp's should know all aspects of study & have right to refuse
- Confidentiality & Privacy
- Pp's identities = secret & info = confidential
- Harm to pp's
- Researcher should be aware of effects of research
- Incl. police intervention,harm to employment prospects, social exclusion, & psychological damage
- Researcher should be aware of effects of research
- Vulnerable Groups
- Special care due to factors: age/disability/physical or mental health
- Covert Research
- Involves deceit to win trust & obtain info
- Informed consent
- CONCLUSION
- Theoretical: important b/c researcher will want to get type of data that their perspective views as best
- But just b/c the researcher prefers a kind of method, mean they can use it
- Practical & ethical factors usually limit the choice
- Time, resources, access, consent, privacy etc are constraints on their choice
- Theoretical: important b/c researcher will want to get type of data that their perspective views as best
- THEORETICAL
- Validity
- Method which produces a genuine pic of what something is really like
- Reliability
- Another researcher can repeat method & get same results
- Representativeness
- Whether or not pp's are a typical cross-section of the interested group
- Large-scale quantitative data that use sophisticated sampling techniques = higher representativeness
- Whether or not pp's are a typical cross-section of the interested group
- Methodological Perspective
- View of what society is & how we should study it affects the choice of methods
- i.e. Positivists (quantitative) & interpretivists (qualitative)
- View of what society is & how we should study it affects the choice of methods
- Validity
- PRACTICAL
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