Sociology - Quesionnaires
- Created by: Iqra
- Created on: 17-12-12 17:38
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- Questionnaires
- Census is an example. They ask respondents to provide answers to pre-set questions.
- Closed ended with limited range of pre-set answers, or sometimes open ended where they are free to answer
- Quick, cheap and can gather large amounts of quantifiable data, widely spread geographically
- No need to recruit interviewers due to respondents completing questionnaires themselves
- Easy to quantify data
- Data is often limited due to them being brief in order for completion
- Easy to quantify data
- Incentives may be required
- Postal questionnaires
- Low response rates
- Inflexible
- No need to recruit interviewers due to respondents completing questionnaires themselves
- Positivists favor questionnaires.Due to them being representative, reliable, objective and detached method for producing quan data
- P follow natural science model to discover causal laws.
- Researchers can test hypotheses to identify correlations
- Reliablity
- Other researchers can easily replicate the original research by using the same questionnaire
- Representativeness
- P prefer questionnaires due to them being large scale, easy to distribute and cheap to post
- However this can be undermined due to low response rate, those who answer and those who don't
- P prefer questionnaires due to them being large scale, easy to distribute and cheap to post
- P follow natural science model to discover causal laws.
- Interpretvism
- Reject detachment and objectivity because they fail to produce valid data
- Believe that questionnaires impose researchers framework on respondent
- Lying, trying to impress and forgetting all create validity problems
- Believe that questionnaires impose researchers framework on respondent
- Reject detachment and objectivity because they fail to produce valid data
- Ethical issues
- Parental consent may be required with children
- Confidentiality is assured, due to most questionnaires are completed anonymously
- Parental consent may be required with children
- Census is an example. They ask respondents to provide answers to pre-set questions.
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