Structure Questionnaires as a Research Method
- Created by: Megnicpip
- Created on: 18-02-18 19:12
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- Structured Interviews
- Ethical Issues
- It can uncomfortable or embarrassing to discuss sensitive topics
- They may lie or decieve researchers creating invalid data
- Pschological harm
- Hard to establish a rapport
- Theoretical Issues
- Reliability
- All participants are asked same questions
- East to obtain similar results as questions are set out in a precise way
- Validity
- Close-ended questions cause restriction, invalid picture of the person
- People may lie or exaggerate producing false data
- Interpretivist criticism
- Inflexibility
- Snapshots
- Set questions means feelings cannot be exploreed
- Feminist Viewpoint
- Graham: They are patriarchal and give distorted, invalid pictures
- Helps to conceal unequal power relationships between sexes
- Treat women as isolated individuals
- Interviewer in control contrasts with women subordination to men
- Reliability
- Practical Issues
- Weaknesses
- Not favoured by interpretivists
- Cannot reach as many people as questionnaires and mor costly
- Those with time or willingness to be interviewed may be untypical
- Strengths
- Relatively straight forward and cheap training
- Suitable for gathering factual information
- High response rate
- Young et al: out of 987 people asked only 54 people refused to be interviewed
- Suitable for hypothesis testing
- Weaknesses
- Ethical Issues
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