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structed interiew
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- 1structed interviews1. are like questionnaires as they both involve asking people set pre - prepared questions
2. questions are usually close - end with pre - coded answers
3. structed interviews and questionnaires - they share the same advantages and disadvantages - structed interviews involve interaction between the researcher and interviewer - 2practical issues1. training the interviewers is relatively straightforward and inexpensive - required to do is to follow a set of instructions - more costly than simply asking questionnaires to people
2. surveys and structed interviews cover a large number of people - limited resources as they are quick and fairly cheap for example postal questionnaire
3. interviews are suitable for gathering factual information or example persons age or job
4. the results can be easily qualified - they use close - end questions with coded answers - suitable for hypothesis testing - 3response rate1. large number who can use structed interviews increase the chances of obtain a represented sample of the population
2. interviews generally have higher response rate for example Willmott and young had approached 987 people and 54 refused - people find it harder to turn down face - to -face.
3. response rate can be increased - interviewer can be several purse who had fail to response initially - high response rates produce a more represented result - better bias for making generalisation
4. with questionnaires those with time and willingness to be interviewed is untypical - produces unrepresented data - validity of any generalisation made from the findings - 4reliability1. if this method is reliable it would mean that if another research was going to do this method again they would get the same result - structed interviews seen as reliable as it is easy for the research to standardise and control - that each interview is conducted the same way for example the same questions, the same tone and same order
2. interview conducts every interviewee in the same way - other research following the same procedures should get the very same result
3. structed interview provides a 'recipe' for repeating the questions
4. that all interviewees are asked exactaly the same questions - we can comapre their answers easily to identify the similarities and differnces - 5Validity1. structed interviews use usually closed - end questions that restrict interviewees choosing a limited pre - set answers - these answers fits the interviewee really wish to say, the data obtained will be invalid.
2. structed interviews give interviewee little freedom to explain the questions or clarify misunderstandings - they may use different words if the interviewee does not understand questions - fail to do the trick the interviewee has move on to the next questions
3. people may lie or exaggerate - responses will produce false data - 6inflexibility1. structed interviews suffer from inflexibility - having to draw up the questions in advance - researcher has to decided what is important - coincide with what the interviewee thinks is important
2. findings may lack validity because they do not reflect the interviewees concerns and priories - establishing the questions beforehand - make it impossible to purse any interesting leads emerge in the course of the interviews - losing valuable insight
3. structed interviews create a snapshot taken from one moment in time - fail to capture the flowing, dynamic nature of social life - unlike participate observation - 7feminist criticism1. the researcher not the female interviewee - control the interview and decides of questioning to be as followed - mirrors women 's subordination in wider society
2. survey methods - women as isolated individuals rather than seeing them in the context of the power relationships that oppress them
3. survey's impose the research to categories on women making it difficult for them to express their experience of oppression - concealing the unequal power relationship between the sexes
4. structed interviews fail to reveal how the interviewees sees their situation
5. Graham - allow the researcher to understand the women's behaviour, meaning and attitudes
6. interviews fail to reveal how the interviewee see their situation
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- AS level Sociology FlashCards sobre structed interiew , criado por Harbrinder Johal em 22-03-2018.
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