Factors Influencing Choice of Methods
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- Created on: 26-11-19 19:36
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- Factors influencing choice of methods
- Practical issues
- Time and money
- large scale surveys may need to employ more people and will take longer to conduct.
- Requirments of funding bodies
- organisation giving the funds may need results in a certain format EG- quantative
- Research opportunity
- James Patricks opportunity to research a gang was 'out of the blue'
- Time and money
- Ethical Issues
- Informed consent
- Patricipants should be offered the right to be involved
- Confidentialtiy
- Researchers should keep the identity of participants sercret
- Vulnerable groups
- Age, disability or mental health issues. Students in school especially
- Covert research
- Can create ethical issues such as lying and deception
- Informed consent
- Theoretical issues
- Validity
- Many argue that qualatative research gives more truthful data
- Interpretivists
- Many argue that qualatative research gives more truthful data
- Reliablity
- if repeated by another researcher they would get the same results.
- more likely to be reliable if using quantitative research methods.
- if repeated by another researcher they would get the same results.
- Represntativeness
- Validity
- Practical issues
- Personal Skills
- Build rapport with the participant
- Practical issues
- Time and money
- large scale surveys may need to employ more people and will take longer to conduct.
- Requirments of funding bodies
- organisation giving the funds may need results in a certain format EG- quantative
- Research opportunity
- James Patricks opportunity to research a gang was 'out of the blue'
- Time and money
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