PET's

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  • Created by: Rawleka
  • Created on: 07-01-21 12:09
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  • PET's
    • PRACTICAL
      • Time & Money
        • Research may be cheaper but may take longer
      • Requirements of Funding Bodies
        • Research institutes/businesses may require the results in a certain form
          • So the researcher has to use a method capable of producing such data
      • Personal Skills/Characteristics
        • May affect the researcher’s ability to use diff methods
      • Subject Matter
        • Some groups/subjects are harder to study than others
      • Research Opportunity
        • Opportunities can occur unexpectedly & so may not be possible to us structured methods
    • ETHICAL
      • Informed consent
        • Pp's should know all aspects of study & have right to refuse
      • Confidentiality & Privacy
        • Pp's identities = secret & info = confidential
      • Harm to pp's
        • Researcher should be aware of effects of research
          • Incl. police intervention,harm to employment prospects, social exclusion, & psychological damage
      • Vulnerable Groups
        • Special care due to factors: age/disability/physical or mental health
      • Covert Research
        • Involves deceit to win trust & obtain info
    • CONCLUSION
      • Theoretical: important b/c researcher will want to get type of data that their perspective views as best
        • But just b/c the researcher prefers a kind of method, mean they can use it
      • Practical & ethical factors usually limit the choice
        • Time, resources, access, consent, privacy etc are constraints on their choice
    • THEORETICAL
      • Validity
        • Method which produces a genuine pic of what something is really like
      • Reliability
        • Another researcher can repeat method & get same results
      • Representativeness
        • Whether or not pp's are a typical cross-section of the interested group
          • Large-scale quantitative data that use sophisticated sampling techniques = higher representativeness
      • Methodological Perspective
        • View of what society is & how we should study it affects the choice of methods
          • i.e. Positivists (quantitative) & interpretivists (qualitative)

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