Research methods
PET
Positivists
Interpretivists
- Created by: Jessica Speight
- Created on: 11-05-14 14:13
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- Research Methods
- PET
- Ethical Factors
- Protecting from harm
- Informed consent > Rosenthal & Jacobson couldnt get informed consent as that would mean the teachers knew their experiment
- Confidentiality
- Vunerable groups > Dobash & Doabash studying domestic violence
- illegality
- Practical factors
- Time
- Danger to sociologists
- Funding/money
- Characteristics & skills of of the researcher
- Gaining entry > took Willis 6 months to gain entry to the school.
- Appropriate method
- Ethical Factors
- Validity vs Reliablity
- Objectiveness vs subjectiveness
- Positivism vs Interpretivism
- Going native
- Representiveness
- Societal values
- Value of sociologist
- Ethical Factors
- P & I
- Interpretivists ("hands on" approach)
- Wants to know why people behave the way that they do. They want to gain understanding of social behaviour.
- Subjective
- Observation methods
- Unstructured interviews
- Documents
- Life histories
- Data should be of high validity but arent interested in reliability
- Positivists (Scientific method)
- Labority methods
- Structured interviews
- Questionnaires
- Social surveys
- Interested in cause and effect: uncovering patterns and establishing correlations between variables
- Reliablity & Objectivity important
- See no difference between social facts and neutral facts
- Use quantitative data
- Interpretivists ("hands on" approach)
- PET
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