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Observation
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- 1Observations - IntroductionParticipant/ Non Participant
Covert / Overt
Qualitative Data
Primary Data
Favoured by Interpretavists - 2Examples to us in ExamCovert: Bourgois' Crack in Harlem Study
Overt: Baker's study of the Moonies (religious cult) - 3Practical Advantaged of ObservationsTime consuming BUT show changes of groups over time
Initial costs are small, only one researcher
In-depth - gain answers to questions that would not have been anticipated - 4Ethical Advantages of ObservationsDifficult for respondents to lie or mislead
- 5Theoretical Advantages of ObservationsFavoured by interpretavists - gives detailed meaning and motivations behind peoples actions
Participant - Researcher will understand subjects from experience - 6Methodological Advantages to ObservationIn-depth study if useful for developing new theories and falsifying old ones
Detailed - increases validity - 7Practical Disadvantages of ObservationsTime Consuming - variables change/disappear in longitudinal study
Accessing group may be difficult (characteristics of researcher)
Everything cannot be recorded - 8Ethical Disadvantages of Observationlack of informed consent
Bourgois: researcher participates in illegal activity
Exiting group may be difficult
guilty knowledge - 9Theoretical Disadvantages of ObservationsPositivists - does not produce quantitative data
cannot look for correlations - 10Methodological Disadvantages of Observationssmall scale - lack of representativeness
lacks reliability - hard to repeat
subjective - researcher only records what they view as important
Hawthorne Effect
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- Flashcards on Observation, created by 23449 on 18/05/2015.
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