PET
- Created by: Jacob Keyte
- Created on: 25-04-15 19:15
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- Choosing Research Methods PET
- Pratical
- Time -The most long term method is ethnography (long term observation of a group) Sometimes an researcher will have to talk to a wide range of people, which takes time.
- Cost- Postage and travel can be costly , can be even more if the study takes many months
- Access- Might be difficult to gain access and may need permission.
- If it is a covert study to get excepted into the group may depend on the age and sex and assuming the native costume
- Danger - Covert methods risk exposing sociologists, if discovered it could lead to anger in the group. Could involve doing some high risk activities
- Ethical
- Participants in studies should have given fully-informed consent. this makes covert questionable
- No participant should be harmed in any way this can mean physically or through being distressed
- Participants confidentiality should be respected so in publications there should be nothing identifying them, i.e. Names, Addresses
- Sociologists should not break the law or be present when others are doing so
- Pratical
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