Advantages of questionnaires
- Created by: Kimberly17
- Created on: 16-03-18 09:21
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- Advantages of questionnaires
- Practical
- Quick and cheap way to gather large amounts of information
- Dewson (2001) posted 4,000 questionnaires to higher education instutions
- No need to train interviewers
- Easy to quantify
- Quick and cheap way to gather large amounts of information
- Theoretical
- Reliability
- Detached method
- Fixed yardstick
- They are repeatable, other researchers can check results
- Allow comparisons between societies
- Representativeness
- Collect large amounts of information
- Can make accurate generalisations from sample
- Reliability
- Ethical
- Not required to answer intrusive questions
- Informed consent ensures anonymity
- Detachment
- Unbiased because researcher doesn't influence answers
- Postal questionnaires completed at distance
- Postal questionnaires completed at distance
- Positivists like questionnaires because they maintain detachment
- Unbiased because researcher doesn't influence answers
- Hypothesis testing
- Find cause and effect relationships between different variables
- Positivists like questionnaires because they take a scientific approach
- Statements can be made about cause and effect relationships
- Sociologists
- Interpretivists
- Impose researchers framework of ideas on research
- Tell little about meanings held by social actors
- Impose researchers framework of ideas on research
- Positivists
- Standardised questions - data can be replicated
- Large scale more representative
- Pre-coded answers - measure behaviour patterns
- Interpretivists
- Practical
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