Observation

Question 1

What are they?

Answer 1

Involve watching, listening and recording the behaviour in a way that isn’t affected by Observer present

Question 2

Observations can be?

Answer 2

Participants – reset to gets involved
Non participant – someone just observes
covert – undercover
overt- making presents known

Question 3

Overt, advantages, disadvantages

Answer 3

Ethical, take notes, they don’t act naturally

Question 4

Covert advantages and disadvantages

Answer 4

Act naturally and is valid deceiving can’t take notes

Question 5

Verstehen

Answer 5

Achieve a detail picture of social reality, to understand, the best interpreter is someone who has been there and understands the feelings

Question 6

Endography

Answer 6

Study of a way of life or group of people, important that an endigrapic method would be participate observation as it involves studying in their natural environment

Question 7

Hawthorne effect

Answer 7

If people know they are being watched they change their behaviour, this therefore reduces the validity of people don’t act naturally

Question 8

Mayo study

Answer 8

Observed environmental factors on worker productivity, e.g. lighting, heating, length of breaks. For each thing he measured worker productivity, he discovered no matter what the environmental conditions worker productivity increase

Question 9

Laud humpherys tea room sex

Answer 9

Humphrey decided it was important to gain understanding of men’s motives to seek quick impersonal sexual gratification In public restrooms. He gained the confidence of men he observed and took their license number, a year later he returned and interviewed then he found out that 54% them married happily with their wives

Question 10

Getting in, staying in and getting out

Answer 10

Researchers emphasise the need to move slowly into a group setting, it is easier if their contact in the group they have to come to terms with the norms and then exiting methods timing and manner varies

Question 11

Sponsor

Answer 11

Someone in the group who is willing to vouch for you explain presences e.g. Whyte he deserved gangs and was accepted as his friendship with a gang leader

Question 12

Going native

Answer 12

Starting to believe the norms and values of the group you’re studying

Question 13

Observer fatigue

Answer 13

Tired of keeping a fake identity