MiC - observations

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  • Methods in context - observations
    • Generalisable?
      • No
    • Practical
      • Time to plan needed
      • Gatekeepers may cause issues with access
      • Personal characteristics may affect behaviour
    • Examples
      • Willis used participant observation in his triangulated study with the Lads and learning to labour
    • Validity
      • Hawthorne effect my reduce validity
      • Power imbalances may reduce validity
    • Theoretical perspective
      • Interpretivists like observations as they provide a lot of detailed qualitative data
    • Ethical
      • Privacy - even if researcher had guilt knowledge
      • Covert not appropriate as students are vulnerable
    • Representativeness
      • Sample bias
      • Not representativedue to differences because of location and sample
      • Small samples used
    • Reliability
      • Poor reliability as it is unstructed

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