What do questionnaires ask people to answer?

What type of questions do questionnaires tend to ask?

What approach to positivists take to sociological research?

What methods of research do positivists use?

What do positivists argue this allows them to make about society?

Give 3 reasons why positivists prefer questionnaires

What do interpretivists argue that the data produced by questionnaires lacks?

What are the 5 main advantages of questionnaires?

What are the 5 practical advantages of questionnaires?

Why are questionnaires reliable?

Why can the respondents answers not be influenced?

How can researchers compare results from different groups?

How do questionnaires maintain detachment and objectivity?

The presence of a researcher could cause what in other methods of research such as interviews or observation?

Why are questionnaires representatitive?

What does this mean the findings of large scale questionnaires make the generalisations?

What are the 6 disadvantages of questionnaires?

What are the practical problems with questionnaires?

Why do questionnaires need to be brief and what problems could this cause?

Why may incentives have to be offered

Why are the response rates low for postal questionnaires?

What factors may reduce response rate?

What could a low response rate mean about the results?

What type of people are more likely to return questionnaires?

In what 3 ways could researches increase the response rate?

What disadvantage does this bring?

Why are questionnaires inflexible?

What disadvantage comes with the detachment of questionnaires?

How may the validity of the data be reduced by the respondent?

How may a questionnaire impose the researchers meanings?

What do closed ended questions limit?