Pratical, Ethical And Theoretical Issues Flashcards

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What is a practical issues

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Things that affect your ability to do the research

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What are the 11 practical issues

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Access, time, money, requirements of the funding body (they may have a political bias which my steer the research) , personal skills and characteristics of researcher (do they have right skills and characteristics), subject matter, language, gatekeepers(those who manage flow of info impact research eg. Gang leader), recording data, complexity of the setting (globalisation = complex) and spatial issues ( where can research take place)

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What is an ethical issue

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Moral concerns raised by the research

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What are the 7 ethical issues

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Informed consent, confidentiality and privacy, psychological harm , vulnerable groups, deception, right to withdraw and guilty knowledge

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What is vulnerable groups

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Children, victims of crime etc should be given extra support

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What is guilty knowledge

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When a researcher learns something about a ppt that puts then in a moral dilemma e.g. you found out someone is suffering from abuse should you intervene or respect their privacy

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What is a theoretical issue

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It’s an issue related to the scientific or non-scientific nature of the research

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What are the 7 theoretical issues

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Validity, reliability, representativeness, objectivity/ detachment, subjectivity/ attachment , verstehen, impression management

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What is validity

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The accuracy of the data e.g. did it measure what it intended to

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What is reliability

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The repeatability of the study

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What is representativeness

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How far you can generalise from the sample to wider target population

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What is objectivity/ detachment

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Researcher keeps their personal views out of the research

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What is subjectivity/ attachment

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Where the researcher personal views DO impact the researcher

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What is verstehen

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Putting yourself in someone’s else’s shoes - empathising

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What is impression management

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When ppts change their behaviour to win social approval

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What are demand characteristics called in sociology

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The Hawthorne effect ( when ppts change behaviour because they know their are being observed )

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What is positivism

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Scientific approach to studying society

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What does positivism :
Aim to do
Type of data is uses
What scale
What does it prioritise
How does it collect data

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-Identify a cause and effect relationship
-quantitative data
-macro scale
-reliability and representativeness
-questionaires, statistics and experiments

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What is interpretivism

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A non-scientific approach to studying society

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What does interpretivism :
Aim to do
Type of data it uses
What scale
What does it prioritise
How does it collect data

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-it aim to reach verstehen
-qualitative data
-micro scale
-it prioritises validity
- interviews, observations and documents