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Research Methods.
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- 1What are the Primary Research Methods (8)1) Participant Observation.
2) Observation
3) Questionnaires
4) Interview
5) Life Histories
6) Longitudinal (through time) studies
7) Case Studies
8) Action research - 2What are the secondary research methods? (8)1) Previous ethnographic research
2) Official Statistics
3) Governmental reports
4) Web Information
5) Mass media products
6) Historical Data information
7) Diaries
8) Letters - 3What is representativenessIs a body or an idea that the whole of a culture. - It represents a people.
- 4What do you have to do in order to be fully representative?You would have to collect data from everyone in the culture
- 5How does one go about identifying and then credibly discount unrepresentative, erroneous or freak data?Look at a normal distribution and identify if anyone is outside of this - Anomalous data such as someone earning 10x a doctors wage in the UK would be a freak ;)
- 6How do you draw a boundary around the anomalous dataEstablish a set of norms in the population.
Anyone who is far beyond this boundary is an anomolie. - 7What is the scientifically approved mean amount of studies to make data reliable?20 times
- 8What is Measurement validity or construct validity Example??Whether a measure being used really measures what it claims.
Do stats taken in a church seminar really measure the strength of religious beliefs? - 9What is internal validity? ExampleRefers to causality and whether a conclusion of the research or theory developed is a true reflection of causes.
Is it a true cause that being unemployed causes crime or are there other explanations - 10What is external validityConsiders whether the results of a particular piece of research can be generalised to other groups.
- 11What is ecological validity?Considers whether social scientific findings are appropriate to peoples everyday natural setting.
- 12What is important to consider when undertaking the practicality of a subject.Cost and Budget
Time and Scale
Size of Sample required. - 13What is triangulation?The combination between quantitative and qualitive data
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