studying society
- Created by: Charlie Fink
- Created on: 15-10-14 22:03
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- strength= quick and easy way to select the right sort of people.
- weakness- likely to be biased as researcher is choosing participants.
- systematic
- uses a system to pick participants.
- strength= participants will hopefully be representative.
- weakness= only the people on the register stand chance of being selected.
- snowball
- research selects one person puts them in touch with other people.
- strength= useful for researching.
- weakness= very time consuming, only small samples used.
- strength= useful for researching.
- research selects one person puts them in touch with other people.
- snowball
- weakness= only the people on the register stand chance of being selected.
- strength= participants will hopefully be representative.
- uses a system to pick participants.
- systematic
- weakness- likely to be biased as researcher is choosing participants.
- ethics
- morals
- ethical guidelines= rules about how participants are treated.
- main ethical issues
- Debrief participants.
- get informed consent
- do not ham or distress participants.
- Do not deceive participants.
- do not ham or distress participants.
- get informed consent
- Debrief participants.
- main ethical issues
- ethical guidelines= rules about how participants are treated.
- morals
- research methods
- primary research
- firsthand= more likely to be accurate
- conducting research can be very time consuming and expensive.
- questionnaires
- set of written questions.
- interviews
- one to one discussion
- observations
- watching participants
- experiments
- situations designed to test participants.
- secondary research
- researchers collect data themseleves
- researchers use data collected by someone else
- easier, quicker, cheaper to collect a lot of data.
- information is more likely to be biased.
- statistics
- numerical quantitative data.
- media reports, blogs forums
- written reports and commentaries
- Letters, emails, profile page,
- personal correspondence between people.
- research studies
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- research studies
- personal correspondence between people.
- Letters, emails, profile page,
- written reports and commentaries
- media reports, blogs forums
- numerical quantitative data.
- statistics
- information is more likely to be biased.
- easier, quicker, cheaper to collect a lot of data.
- researchers use data collected by someone else
- researchers collect data themseleves
- secondary research
- situations designed to test participants.
- experiments
- watching participants
- observations
- one to one discussion
- interviews
- set of written questions.
- questionnaires
- conducting research can be very time consuming and expensive.
- firsthand= more likely to be accurate
- primary research
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