Factors influencing choice of method
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- Created on: 31-05-17 15:25
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- Factors influencing choice of method
- Practical Issues
- Time and money
- Certain methods require different amounts of time and money
- Requirement of funding bodies
- Some organisations that provide funding may need research to be in a certain form
- Personal skills and characteristics
- Sociologist may have different skill which could affect their ability to use certain methods
- Subject matter
- Certain methods fit best to the subject your researching
- Time and money
- Theoretical Issues
- Reliability
- This means the research is able to be repeated gaining the same or similar results of data
- Validity
- This means that the findings represent what the researcher was trying to discover
- Representatives
- Wether the people we are studying are typical of society
- Reliability
- Ethical Issues
- Deception and informed consent
- People involved have the right to know what it is they are taking part in
- Confidentiality
- Sociologist must protect the identity of the respondent in the study
- Protection from harm
- Sociologist need to be aware if they are putting themselves or others at risk
- Vulnerable groups
- Special care should be taken when dealing with vulnerable people such as age, disability, physical or mental health
- Informed consent
- Participants in research should understand what it is that they agree to when they say they will participate in research projects
- Deception and informed consent
- Sampling
- Random
- the sample is by chance e.g names out of a hat
- Opportunity
- In the sample frame, every nth person is picked
- stratified
- The same number of people than have to be uses in the sample. if the population is 18% of under 18s the sample must have 185 of under 18s
- Quota
- The interviewer has a quota which has to fill with suitable people
- Snowball
- Collecting a sample through an individual who passes on other key names that could be interviewed
- Random
- Practical Issues
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