Primary Qualitative - Group Interviews

Question 1

What are group interviews?

Answer 1

Participants are interviewed as a group rather than individually

Question 2

What are the strengths of group interviews when researching anti-school subcultures?

Answer 2

May feel more comfortable being with people who have the same attitude towards school as them

Question 3

What are the weaknesses of group interviews when researching anti-school subcultures?

Answer 3

May lie about their feelings towards school to try and impress which will reduce the validity of findings

Question 4

What are the strengths of group interviews?

Answer 4

Funding - cheaper to interview several people at the same time

Quicker to conduct than one-to-one unstructured interviews

Informed consent

Produce qualitative data - interpretivists like

Validity - gain a true picture

Question 5

What are the weaknesses of group interviews?

Answer 5

May lack validity - peer pressure

Lack reliability - every group interview different

Not representative - small sample, cannot be generalised to research population