Sociology - Structured Interviews
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- Structured Interviews
- Standardised questionnaires. Each interview uses exactly the same questions, wording and tone of voice
- Semi Structured interviews are where there are common questions, but the researcher can add additional questions
- Quick and cheap for large number of people
- Suitable for gathering factual information like age, job or religion.
- Closed ended questions with precoded questions are easy to quantify.
- Training is straight forward and cheap.
- Response rates are higher due to face to face interaction.
- Inflexible, researcher can not follow any new leads.
- Snapshots of a moment in time.
- May feel under pressure to answer
- Informed consent, guarantee confidentiality and no pressure to answer questions.
- Positivism
- Seek laws of cause and effect
- SI allow them to test hypotheses by showing correlations and possible cause and effect relationships
- Interpretivist
- Lack validity
- Give responders little freedom to explain questions or misunderstandings.
- Forcing interviewees from limited number of answers
- May lie or exaggerate
- Impose researcher's ideas
- Lack validity
- Reliablity
- Same standardized questions can be used again.
- Same set of questions can be asked, this making it easier to compare and identify sim and differences
- Represent
- Large numbers can be conducted
- Positivists need data to be representative to make generalised cause and effect statements
- Feminism Criticisms
- Relationship between interviewer and interviewee reflect the exploitative nature of patriarchal gender relationships
- Oakley - Maculine approach to research values objectively regards science more important that people's interests.
- Graham - distort women's experiences due to researcher's imposing categories on women
- Relationship between interviewer and interviewee reflect the exploitative nature of patriarchal gender relationships
- Standardised questionnaires. Each interview uses exactly the same questions, wording and tone of voice
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