Mic - secondary sources
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 06-04-22 14:17
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- methods in context - secondary sources
- Reliability
- Data can be standardised so is fairly reliable
- May be errors in data
- Representativeness
- hard stats are very representative
- Census data is very representativedue to national requirement
- Legal documents are representative
- Ethical
- Private documents need consent to be used
- Infringe on an individual’s privacy
- Theoretical, perspective
- Positivist method as they like quantitative data and statistics
- Intepretivists dont like secondary sources as they sat they are socially constructed and do not truly represent society
- Validity
- Hard statistics - highly valid due to negligible errors
- Soft statistics - not valid due to dark figure
- Researchers may interpret data differently
- Self report data may be inaccurate due to Hawthorne/social desirability biases
- Examples
- Hey
- Studied notes passed in class to understand classroom friendships
- Private documents
- Studied notes passed in class to understand classroom friendships
- Hey
- Practical
- Poor availability and may need to be interpreted for a specific matter
- Allows comparison of trends
- Free and easy to access
- Generalisable?
- Easy to generalise findings
- Reliability
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