Theory and methods
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- Practical, Ethical and Theoretical issues (P.E.T)
- P
- Time & money
- Requirements of funding bodies
- The personal skills and characteristics
- E
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality
- Harmful effects
- T
- Reliability
- Validity
- Representativeness
- Interpretivists prefer research methods that are qualitative. Positivists prefer research methods that produce quantitative data.
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- Key features:
- Control - artificial environment, controlled. two groups, controlled group and experimental group
- Practical issues:
- Open systems - Keat and Urry(1982) lab only suitable for closed systems e.g. chemistry physics. However, society is open and is to complex and therefore, difficult to identify and control all variables.
- Individuals are complex - Not possible to match two humans as no two humans are EXACTLY alike. Whereas, two chemicals are.
- Hawthorne effect - less validity
- Small samples - low representativness
- Ethical issues:
- Informed consent
- Harm to subjects
- Theoretical issues:
- representativeness
- Internal validity
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- Slide Set on Theory and methods, created by Daniel Brock on 18/04/2017.
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