Participant observations
- Created by: mischax
- Created on: 14-01-18 16:01
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- Participant Observations
- Researcher joins the group and takes part in their activities
- advantages
- high in validity
- insight, depth
- useful to study 'difficult' groups
- useful when studying 'unconscious actions' e.g when people don't necessarily know 'answers'
- disadvantage
- time consuming
- stressful & demanding
- Hawthorne effect in Overt
- lacks reliability
- ethical issues
- low representative-ness
- going native- loosing objective
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