Field Experiments
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- Created on: 04-02-22 10:34
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- Field Experiments
- It takes place in the subject's natural surroundings
- Those involved do not know they are the subjects of an experiment
- Researcher isolates and manipulates one or more of the variables in the situation to see what the effect of it is
- Actor tests and correspondence tests are also field experiments
- Critics argue that they are unethical as they carry them out without the subject's knowledge or consent.
- The Comparative Method
- Carried out only in the mind of the sociologist
- Does not require the researcher to experiment on people
- 1: Identify two groups that are alike in all major respects except for one variable they are interested in 2: Compare the two groups to see if this one difference between them has any effect
- Durkheim's study of suicide, which relied on analysing official statistics
- It avoids artificiality
- It can be used to study past events
- It avoids ethical problems
- Less control over variables
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