Research Methods: Questionnaires

Research Methods: Questionnaires

1. Thoery: Interpretivism and Positivism

   • Positivists favour questionnaires because it achieves main goal of relibility, generalisibility and representativeness. This is because the set of stndardized questions can be r
   • Interpretivists reject questionnaires because they impose researchers ideas on respondents. They tell us little about the meaning held by social actors. Interpretivists reject questionnaires as it fails to achieve main goal of validity.