Choices in Research: Methods, Practicalities, Ethics and Theories
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- Choices in Research: Methods, Practicalities, Ethics and Theories
- The choice of research area
- Affected by the values of the researcher
- A person's position in society may affect what they consider a worthwhile topic
- Influenced by developments in sociology and wider society
- Influenced by the practicalities of carrying out research
- Sociologists who hold strong theoretical positions are more likely to study the topics they consider to be the most imporatnt
- Affected by the values of the researcher
- Practical, Ethical and Theoretical factors and choice of research method
- The relationship between practical issues and research
- Money
- TIme
- Whether it is possible to do the research
- The relationship between research methods and ethics
- Gaining consent
- Subject must be able and willing to give informed consent
- Must be aware the research is happening
- Subject must be able and willing to give informed consent
- Effects on people being studied
- Confidentiality
- Effects on the wider society
- Issues of legality and immorality
- Gaining consent
- The relationship between theories and methods
- Structural approaches and positivism
- The best way to examine society is to view it as a real 'thing' which exists above and beyond us all as individuals
- There are objective social facts about the social world
- You can look for correlations
- Possible to discover laws of human behaviours
- Human behaviour is shaped by external stimuli
- Only study what you can observe
- Supports the use of methods such as questionnaires and statistics
- Interpretive approaches
- The only way to study society is to look at the world through the eyes of an individual as part of a group
- Triangulation and mixed methods research
- Using a variety of methods can improve the validity and reliability of a single piece of research
- Structural approaches and positivism
- The relationship between practical issues and research
- Research in the educational context
- Research into educational staff
- Practical issues
- Access to educational staff may be limited due to lack of time
- Ethical issues
- Ensure that here is no harm done
- Theoretical issues
- Representativeness of staff who are permitted to take part in research
- Practical issues
- Research into pupils and students
- Practical issues
- Parents may be unwilling to give consent
- Ethical issues
- Causes harm via disrupting education
- Theoretical issues
- Problems with young children expressing abstract ideas
- Practical issues
- Research into parents
- Practical issues
- Hard to gain access to parents
- Ethical issues
- Less ethically problematic than researching students
- Theoretical issues
- Hard to get a representative sample
- Practical issues
- Research into educational staff
- The choice of research area
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