Positivism and Quantitative Research / Interpretivist and Qualitative Reserach
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- Positivism and quantitative research / interpretivist and qualtitative research
- Positivists
- Is hypothetico meaning hypothesis which can be defined as "a predicted answer to a research question"
- Deductive that the hypothesis is drawn from a broader framework of observation, maybe from an existing theory
- Surveys
- Aims
- To uncover straightforward factual information about a particular group of people
- To uncover differences in beliefs, values and behavior between people but only when these are easily and clearly measured
- To test a hypothesis
- They cannot uncover complex views
- Longitudinal
- Snapshot such as opinion polls
- Random sampling
- Cluster and systemmatic
- Systematic people skip some who they don't want to ask questions out of fear when they are meant to ask every nth person
- Cluster and systemmatic
- Aims
- Studies
- Farrington and West Longitudinal Survey on 40 working class boys until they were 30, 1 in 5 had been cautioned or arrested
- Durkhiem looking at suicide
- Experiments
- Variables, dependent and independent
- Hawthorn or experimenter effect - people being watched stopped in covert
- Interpretivists
- Studies
- Cohen and Nitinggale both did overt studies in America
- Bourgis studied crack houses and users families
- Goes back to visit the primary gatekeeper his relationship could have influenced the results
- In New York
- Goes back to visit the primary gatekeeper his relationship could have influenced the results
- Focus groups
- Advantages
- Allows researcher to understand why people hold certain views
- Focus groups are dynamic, people defend their own views
- People piriotise their problems
- Peoples views can change
- Disadvantages
- Researcher has limited control, conversation can become irrelevant
- Louder people dominate discussion
- Advantages
- Participant observation
- Advantagses
- Generating new ideas
- Reaching into difficult areas
- Experience
- Disadvantages
- Ethics - how far do they get involved
- Bias - personal bias get in the way
- Studying the powerless
- Advantagses
- Social Action/symbolic interactionist theory by Mead
- Versten by Weber, see from their eyes
- Bryman
- Hypothesises can led to people changing the reults
- Studies
- Positivists
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