RESEARCH METHODS; ethical considerations, reflexivity and respondent validation

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS;

ethics are moral codes which have to be considered when conducting sociological research, researches should uphold principles of what is right and wrong. The BSA is the british sociological assosiation is a comitee that outlines ethical procedures in sociologial research and allows research to go ahead if it proves to be ethical 

validity; because the participants feel comfortable enough to reveal the truth

representiveness + generalisabilty; could increase the response rate as more participants will be willing to take part in the research

helps to protect the researcher from danger

REFLEXIVITY:

a form of self evaluation that invloves the researcher reflects critically on their research

P; acknowleges that researchers recognise that their role might have…