AQA A Level Sociology Questionnaires T+M
- Created by: harriet_docksey
- Created on: 09-01-21 12:56
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- Questionnaires
- Types of questions
- Closed-ended
- Open-ended
- Practical Issues
- Quick and cheap
- No need to recruit people
- Easily quantifiable data
- Data is often limited and superficial
- Due to questionnaires needing to be brief
- May need to offer incentives which adds to the cost
- Can't be sure the intended recipient completed it
- Low response rates are a major problem
- Faulty design such as too-complex language
- They are inflexible: can't be used to explore any new lines of enquiry
- Must be familiar with the topic to come up w/ questions
- Theoretical Issues
- Positivism
- Produce representative findings that are generalisable to the rest of the population
- Hypothesis testing
- Questionnaires test hypotheses and identify relationships
- Due to using quantitative data
- Reliability
- Easily repeatable
- Findings can be checked/ falsified
- The questionnaire is a standardised measuring instrument
- Representativeness
- Due to being large-scale
- They use representative samples with sophisticated sampling techniques
- Detachment and objective
- No opinions present
- Interpretivism
- The detachment fails to produce a valid picture of actors' meanings, lack of contact, may lead to language barriers... results in invalid data
- Lying, forgetting and trying to impress
- Schofield (1965): misunderstanding of the question 'Are you a virgin?' caused invalid data
- Right answerism
- Imposing the researcher's meanings
- Choosing questions in advance causes bias: the researcher chooses what's important
- Risk a distorted reality and undermining validity regardless of question type
- Closed-ended: they are a kind of straitjacket where respondents have to try and fit their views into the answers on offer
- Open-ended: in order to quantify answers, non-identical answers may get lumped together (Shipman, 1997)
- Positivism
- Types of questions
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