Pratical issues of participant observations
A list of some pratical issues that effect participant observations.
- Created by: Sian
- Created on: 09-03-13 14:46
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- Practical issues
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- A good way to understand from the group/individuals point of view
- self experience
- understanding things the way others of the group do.
- self experience
- rich, detailed, qualitative data
- A good way to understand from the group/individuals point of view
- Access
- Sometimes P.O is the only way of accessing certain situations
- e.g. Gangs and cults
- Groups or individuals who are part of deviant activities = suspicious of outsiders
- e.g. Gangs and cults
- Groups or individuals who are part of deviant activities = suspicious of outsiders
- The group unknowing about the observation may be the only way to uncover the real actions
- more willing to share with those who share their way of life
- more willing to share with those who share their way of life
- Sometimes P.O is the only way of accessing certain situations
- Limmitations
- Wouldn't work/be able to access all groups
- E.g. Powerful ones
- Recording information in a covet observation will be hard
- lots of data collected, hard to analyse it all
- Time consuming
- Training needed for most situations
- Unethical
- No consent often
- Can't back out as they don't know about the study.
- Certain skills are needed and not everyone has these
- Possible to get too carried away
- Subjective and biased
- Wouldn't work/be able to access all groups
- Flexibility
- Open minded
- Change hypothesis and ask more questions than possible with other methods
- "I learnt answers to questions that I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been using other methods" - (Whyte)
- Open minded
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