interviews
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- Created on: 07-10-21 18:15
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- INTERVIEWS
- structured interview: based on a set of pre-coded questions (interview schedule), questions are in order and not alot of probing
- unstructured interview: guided conversation, relaxed and informal, depth and detail
- interviews are the most widely used methods of gathering data in sociology
- structured interviews
- advantages: training interviewers is inexpensive and straight forward, easily quantified results, highly response rate, reliable, valid, less chance of interview bias
- dis advantages: right answerism, lack of validity due to inflexibility, feminist critics, may impose limits on answers, not suitable for personal or sensitive questions, time consuming, costly
- INTERVIEWS
- structured interview: based on a set of pre-coded questions (interview schedule), questions are in order and not alot of probing
- unstructured interview: guided conversation, relaxed and informal, depth and detail
- interviews are the most widely used methods of gathering data in sociology
- unstructured interviews
- advantages: greater flexibility, increases validity, detailed responses, validity, honesty, rapport and sensitivity, interviewers view, able to check understanding, flexibility, exploring unfamiliar topics
- disadvantages time consuming, costly, less reliable, difficult to replicate, peer pressure- exaggerate or distort, interview bias, practical problems, not standardised
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