obervervation, participant observation

Question 1

What is a covert observation?

Answer 1

where the participants do not know that a research is being conducted about them

Question 2

what is a participant obervation?

Answer 2

where the researcher takes part in the activities of the group

Question 3

what is a structured observation?

Answer 3

when the reasercher has a set list of things to look for and make a tally of them

Question 4

what is a overt observation?

Answer 4

where the participants know a reaserch is being conducted of them

Question 5

What is a non-participant observation?

Answer 5

Researcher observes without taking part

Question 6

what is an unstrutured observation?

Answer 6

where the researcher watches freely and records what happens

Question 7

what method prefers observation? why?

Answer 7

interpretivists because you can get a lot of qualitative data from it

Question 8

who is more likely to use a structured observation?why

Answer 8

positivists as they like things to be structured

Question 9

name 2 examples of an covert participant observation?

Answer 9

patrick’s study on gang in glasgow and griffin’s study how black people experience racism in society

Question 10

summarise what happened in patrick’s study?

Answer 10

used a false name to get access into a gang in glasgow and he observed how the gang operated without anyone knowing they were being observed

Question 11

summarise griffin’s study?

Answer 11

used sun lamps and medication to pass as a black man and then travelled around the deep south experiencing first hand the impact of white racism

Question 12

name the 2 main examples of overt participant observations?

Answer 12

, whyte study on street corner society and venkatesh study on gang leader for a day

Question 13

summarise willis’s study?

Answer 13

did group interviews and overt participant observation with 12 wc boys and found that by ressisting the school’s idealogy they were serving capitalism

Question 14

summarise whyte study?

Answer 14

conducted a semi-overt observation as not all the participants knew. he investegated how local gangs were formed and organised

Question 15

summarise venkatesh’s study?

Answer 15

spent 7 years participanting in the life of gang members in boston and gained an insight into a poverty stricken community-overt

Question 16

name a 2 theoretical strengths of participant observation?and why?example?

Answer 16

validity-as they are more likely to get truthful data because its in a real world enviroment. .And they are more likely to achieve versten as they could potentially put themseleves in the shoes of the particpants like in griffins study.

Question 17

name a pratical strengh of particpant observations?example

Answer 17

study groups on the edge of society as sometimes participants is the only way to study groups like criminals who have not yet being caught like in partick’s study

Question 18

name an ethical strenghth od particpant observation?example

Answer 18

if its overt you can get infoermed consent like in willis’s study

Question 19

name a theoretical limitation with participant observation?

Answer 19

the hawthorne affect because if the participants know you are observing them they could act differently.like in an overt observation

Question 20

name a ethical limitation of a participant observation?example

Answer 20

if its in a covert observation you cant get informed consent and you would be decieving the participants like in patricks study

Question 21

name a pratical weakness of a participant observation?example

Answer 21

researcher will have to find a way of getting into the group to conduct there research and a way of getting out like in patricks research

Question 22

why is a participant observation unrepresentative?

Answer 22

you cant get a large sample