Questionnaires
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- Created on: 18-02-17 13:20
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- RESEARCH METHODS: Question-naires
- Open Ended Questions
- Unanticipated findings discovered
- Preferred by Interpretivists
- Can give detailed answers
- Allows creativity and self expression
- A logical thinking process can be shown through such answers
- Time consuming
- Difficult to compare
- Opinion may be biased due to desired social attitudes
- Cost of money for the paper
- Misunderstan-dings in questions
- Theoretical issues
- Postal Questionnaires: no researcher present to influence anyone.
- Collection of results allows comparison between societies, making it representitive
- May not be valid, as they are obtained at a certain period, making it a snap-shot from only that time
- May not be valid due to respondent giving false information
- Positivists like questionnaires because they are detached and objective, and is a scientific approach
- Interpretivists do not like this method. Cicourel: valid pictures can only be gained through verstehen
- Practical Issues
- Quick and cheap way of gathering large quantities of data
- Data easy to quantify and can be processed by computers to look at patterns
- Postal questionnaires may not be received by respondent, or may be addressed to wrong person.
- Data can be limited and superficial due to brief answers
- Scaled Questions
- Easier to compare
- Collected quickly
- Shows to what extent the respondent agrees
- Flexible
- Easy to code and categorise
- Favoured by positivists
- Respondent cannot express emotions
- If the scaled is even-numbered, there is no middle value - it is always closer to one side
- Takes time to construct
- Can express false impressions of attitudes
- Ethical Issues
- Respondents do not have to answer questions if they don't want to.
- Researchers can gain informed consent, and right to withdraw.
- Researchers may ask leading questions that influence respondent's answers
- Shipman: Researchers "prune and blend" data
- Closed/Fixed Choice Questions
- Favoured by Positivists who see responses as social facts.
- Data can be collected quickly.
- Easier to code
- Easier to compare
- More likely to answer about sensitive topics
- Less literate people have no disadvantage
- Not favoured by Interpretivists; poor for collecting information about feelings and emotions
- Lacks detail
- RESEARCH METHODS: Question-naires
- Open Ended Questions
- Unanticipated findings discovered
- Preferred by Interpretivists
- Can give detailed answers
- Allows creativity and self expression
- A logical thinking process can be shown through such answers
- Time consuming
- Difficult to compare
- Opinion may be biased due to desired social attitudes
- Cost of money for the paper
- Misunderstan-dings in questions
- Theoretical issues
- Postal Questionnaires: no researcher present to influence anyone.
- Collection of results allows comparison between societies, making it representitive
- May not be valid, as they are obtained at a certain period, making it a snap-shot from only that time
- May not be valid due to respondent giving false information
- Positivists like questionnaires because they are detached and objective, and is a scientific approach
- Interpretivists do not like this method. Cicourel: valid pictures can only be gained through verstehen
- Practical Issues
- Quick and cheap way of gathering large quantities of data
- Data easy to quantify and can be processed by computers to look at patterns
- Postal questionnaires may not be received by respondent, or may be addressed to wrong person.
- Data can be limited and superficial due to brief answers
- Scaled Questions
- Easier to compare
- Collected quickly
- Shows to what extent the respondent agrees
- Flexible
- Easy to code and categorise
- Favoured by positivists
- Respondent cannot express emotions
- If the scaled is even-numbered, there is no middle value - it is always closer to one side
- Takes time to construct
- Can express false impressions of attitudes
- Ethical Issues
- Respondents do not have to answer questions if they don't want to.
- Researchers can gain informed consent, and right to withdraw.
- Researchers may ask leading questions that influence respondent's answers
- Shipman: Researchers "prune and blend" data
- Closed/Fixed Choice Questions
- Favoured by Positivists who see responses as social facts.
- Data can be collected quickly.
- Easier to code
- Easier to compare
- More likely to answer about sensitive topics
- Less literate people have no disadvantage
- Not favoured by Interpretivists; poor for collecting information about feelings and emotions
- Lacks detail
- Desired answer may not be an option
- Simplistic responses to big issues
- Not a range of choice in answers
- Open Ended Questions
- Desired answer may not be an option
- Simplistic responses to big issues
- Not a range of choice in answers
- Open Ended Questions
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