sociology research methods (explinations)
- Created by: Ashleigh Ward
- Created on: 07-04-13 21:35
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- sociology research mathods
- semi-structured interviews
- the research has a few questions to stick to but they can go off topic
- participant observation
- data is recovered by interacting with the people being researched
- group interviews
- there are numerous researcher and particioants in one interview
- questionairs
- open ended questions = participant can answer any way they like
- closed ended questions = participant has to choose from a range of answers
- structures interviews
- there are set questions which the interviewer has to stick to and must remane on topic
- non-participant observation
- data is recovered without interacting with the participants
- unstructured interviews
- the researcher does not have a list of questions to choose from
- the researcher and participants can go off topic
- longitudinal study
- this is data recieved over a long period of time
- semi-structured interviews
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