Participant observtion
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- Created on: 05-04-17 11:15
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- Participant observation
- Positivists
- Prefer quantitative methods: social surveys, structured questionnaires and official statistics as these have good reliability and representative
- large scale surveys= an overview of society as a whole and to uncover social trends
- uses scientific approach
- macro approach
- value ffree- researcher should remain detached
- macro approach
- uses scientific approach
- large scale surveys= an overview of society as a whole and to uncover social trends
- Objective
- Prefer quantitative methods: social surveys, structured questionnaires and official statistics as these have good reliability and representative
- Interpretivist
- individuals are not just puppets who react to external social forces as Positivists believe.
- Interpretivists argue that to understand human action need to achieve ‘Verstehen‘, or empathetic understanding – we need to see the world through the eyes of the actors doing the acting
- prefer qualitative research as it allows close interaction w/respondents
- greater validity
- subjective
- Small numbers of cases chosen for specific reasons
- micro-level focusing on small scale face to face interactions
- Small numbers of cases chosen for specific reasons
- subjective
- greater validity
- prefer qualitative research as it allows close interaction w/respondents
- Interpretivists argue that to understand human action need to achieve ‘Verstehen‘, or empathetic understanding – we need to see the world through the eyes of the actors doing the acting
- individuals are not just puppets who react to external social forces as Positivists believe.
- Positivists
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