factors influencing choice of method - PET factors

Question 1

what are the three factors that influence choice of method?

Answer 1

practical, ethical and theoretical

Question 2

what does practical stand for ?

Answer 2

things that affect your ability to do reaserch

Question 3

name the 11 practical things that influence your research?

Answer 3

access, time , money, requairement of funding bodies, personal skills and characteristics of the reseacher, subject matter, language, gate keeper, recording data, complexity of the setting and spatial issues

Question 4

access?

Answer 4

wether you can get access to the participant

Question 5

time?

Answer 5

how long will you have to complete the research

Question 6

money?

Answer 6

how much money will be spent conducting the research

Question 7

requairements of funding bodies?

Answer 7

who is paying for your research as they have control on wether you can publish it or not

Question 8

personal skills and the chararcteristics of the researcher?example?

Answer 8

certain skills requaire a particular characteristics like communications in interviews

Question 9

subject matter?example

Answer 9

wether it will be a sensetive subject to like reseachering domestic violence

Question 10

language?

Answer 10

wether you and the participants have to appropiate language skills

Question 11

gatekeepers?like?

Answer 11

those you control your access to the information like a headteacher

Question 12

recording data?

Answer 12

wether the researcher can collect data during the study

Question 13

Complexity of the setting?example?

Answer 13

the issue that can arise due to how complex the study being conducted is like globalisation

Question 14

spetial issues?

Answer 14

where the research will take place and wether the participant or you is in any danger

Question 15

what does ethical stand for?

Answer 15

moral concerns raised by the research

Question 16

what are the 7 moral concerns raised during research?

Answer 16

informed consent, confidentiality and privacy, psychological harm, vulnerable groups, deception, right to withdraw and guilty knowlege

Question 17

informed consent?

Answer 17

wether the perticipant has given permission and is fully informed and what is going to take place during the research

Question 18

Confidentiality and Privacy?

Answer 18

where the researcher can not declose any personal information about the participants like there name and identity

Question 19

psychological harm?

Answer 19

wether the research will cause mental distress to the participants involved in the research

Question 20

vunerable groups?

Answer 20

where special care taken with participants that are vulnerable during the research

Question 21

deception?

Answer 21

where participants are lied to in order to carry on with the research like in a covert research

Question 22

Right to withdraw?

Answer 22

where the participants must have the right to withdraw from the research whenever they want

Question 23

guilty knowlege?

Answer 23

where the researcher learns something which will puth them in a moral dilemmma

Question 24

what does theoretical stand for?

Answer 24

related to the scientific or non- scientific nature of the research

Question 25

what are the 7 theroritical things that relate to the scientic and non scientific nature of the reseach?

Answer 25

valifity,reliablity,resentativeness, objectivity/detachment,subjectivity/attachment, verstehen and impression management

Question 26

validity?

Answer 26

the truthfullness or accuracy of the data

Question 27

reliablity?

Answer 27

wether the research can be carried out mutiply times and still care the same consistancy

Question 28

representativeness?

Answer 28

how far we can generalise the research with a geneal population in society.

Question 29

objectivity/detachment?

Answer 29

the researcher keeps there personal views out of the research

Question 30

subjectivity/attachment?

Answer 30

where the researcher implements there personal views into the research

Question 31

Verstenhen?

Answer 31

putting yourself in someone else’s shoes

Question 32

impression management?

Answer 32

when participants cahnge their behaviour to win social approval