structured interview advantages and disadvantages
- Created by: nkelly
- Created on: 21-02-18 09:41
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- Interviews -
- structured
- STRENGTHS
- positivists keen on this as scientific method
- use of closed questions and tick box data creates lots of quantitative data
- Can be conducted quickly as a set of questions means no deviation. Therefore lots can be sampled.
- Researchers can explain instructions in addition to the aims and objectives decreasing non response and addressing ethical concerns
- Better response rate as interviewer can return if not home
- weaknesses
- artificial device and therefore could cause suspicion and lead to false answering
- Interviewers can also create demand characteristics- unconsciously influence answers by tone or facial expression
- Some respondents may act negatively to interviewer due to race or gender e.g therefore can not build trust and rapport with the interview
- It is too rigid so cannot peruse any extra links as they must stick to the question
- snapshots taken at one point in time therefore fail to capture the changing nature of social life.
- Interpretivist argue they used closed questions meaning they could suffer from imposition. Researcher already mapped out experiences and may fail to answer important question.
- The success of interview depends on what people know about own behaviour
- artificial device and therefore could cause suspicion and lead to false answering
- STRENGTHS
- structured
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