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Research methods
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Research methods
Interviews
- Structured
- practical issues
- Response rate
- Reliability
- validity
- Inflexibility
- Feminist criticisms
- Unstructured
- Rapport & Sensitivity
- interviewees view
- Checking understanding
- Flexibility
- Unfamiliar topics
- Time & Sample size
- Training
- interpersonal skills
- Unrepresentativeness
- Reliability
- Quantification
- Validity
- Group
- Semi-structured
- Structured
Questionnaires
- Strengths
- Practical advantages
- Cheap
- Quick & Easy
- Data easy to quantify
- No training
- Reliability
- Hypothesis testing
- Detachment & Objectivity
- Representativeness
- Ethics
- Practical advantages
- Weaknesses
- Practical problems
- Postal
- Low response rate
- Inflexibility
- Snapshots
- Detachments
- 'RIght answerism'
- Researchers meanings
- Practical problems
- Strengths
Experiments
- Experimental group
- Ethical group
- Strengths
- Reliability
- Validity
- Control of extr variables
- Weaknesses
- Ecological validity
- Small samples
- Hawthorne effect
- Ethical problems
- Field experiments
- Freewill
- Durkehim- Suicide
Official statistics
- Weaknesses
- Not necessarily applicable to study
- Not all sources are sociological
- Mistakes
- Biased
- Not specific enough
- Strengths
- Easy to analyse
- Practical advantages
- Cheaper
- Less time consuming
- Patterns over time
- Reliability
- No training
- Weaknesses
Observation
- Strengths
- Validity
- Insight
- Flexibility
- Practical advantages
- Raport
- Most effective method
- Weaknesses
- Practical disadvantages
- Time consuming
- Training
- Stress/demands
- Skills
- Personal characteristics
- Ethical problems
- Representativeness
- Reliability
- Bias & lack of objectivity
- Validity
- Practical disadvantages
- Non-participant
- Participant
- Strengths
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- Mind Map on Research methods, created by Sorcha Cantwell on 19/04/2016.
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