2.1 Key Terms (research)

Question 1

What are some practical issues?

Answer 1

Access to subjects
Time 
Resources 
Language 
Recording and analysing data
Personal risk to researcher

Question 2

What are practical issues?

Answer 2

Issues surrounding the practicality of the research

Question 3

What are ethical issues?

Answer 3

Issues surrounding moral principles and what is acceptable

Question 4

Give some examples of ethical issues of research:

Answer 4

Informed consent
Confidentiality 
Causing harm 
Illegal activities 
Deception 
Right to withdraw

Question 5

What does it mean if research is reliable?

Answer 5

The research can be repeated in the exact same way

Question 6

If research is reliable what can we do?

Answer 6

Repeat it to test it and draw comparisons

Question 7

The more structured research…

Answer 7

…the more reliable it is

Question 8

What does it mean for research to be valid?

Answer 8

It gives a true picture of real life

Question 9

What are some issues surrounding validity?

Answer 9

Are people telling the truth?
Are people behaving as they would in a normal social setting?
Can we develop verstehen?

Question 10

What is another phrase for verstehen?

Answer 10

Getting inside people’s heads/consciousness

Question 11

What does it mean for a sample to be representative?

Answer 11

It is reflective of the entire target population and findings can be generalised