Non Participant Observation

Question 1

Practical adv of practical overt non participant observation

Answer 1

• Researcher doesn’t need to put on an act

- won’t be involved in illegal activities

Question 2

Two theoretical disadv of non participant observation

Answer 2

• valuable to study micro level interactions

- remains unbiased = less likely to have influence on the group

Question 3

One pract overt/ convert disadv of non participant observation

Answer 3

P/O - risk of hawethorne effect

P/C - travel costs to access area studied

Question 4

Ethics disadv of non participant observation

Answer 4

May have moral duties to report crimes = deceiving participants

Question 5

Two theoretical disadv of non participant observations

Answer 5

• not representative due to small random samples

- limit researchers understanding as they are an outsider to the group