Questionare- 20mark plan

Question 1

Practical

Benefits

Dewson

Answer 1

Quick cheap means of collecting data
Dewson (2001)- 4000 sample, in 14 schools
No cost of recruitment + training
Easily quantifiable
Highly reliable as identical Qs used

Dewson

Question 2

Practical

Drawbacks

Kite

Answer 2

Data is limited and superficial
Lower response rates mean they provide correlations not meanings
Generalisations can’t be made due to only certain repondent types answering
Hite (1991) 4.25% response rate from 100k

Question 3

Ethical

Benefit

Answer 3

Easy to gain consent
Respondents on no obligation to answer Qs
Guarentee anonomyty
Embaressment and insecurity overcome as its a detached method

Question 4

Ethical

Drawback

Answer 4

Right answerism and researcher rape
Respondents feel forced to provide a certain answer
No researcher contact means questions can’t be elaborated uppon to provide reassurance or ensure question isn’t intruding

Question 5

Positivist

House, army

Answer 5

Identify cause and effect relationships
Detached objective method
No personal involvement so unbiased
Easily quantified data from representative and reliable samples
Samples are ready made from school data-base
Concept can be operationalised to test hypopthesis

Question 6

Interpretivist

Camera, rubber, prison, art

Answer 6

Snapshot in time
Highly inflexible method, once finalised no follow up Qs
Fails to produce valid picture as no behaviour captured
Circoural (1968)- valid picture gained from developed connection with respondent
Shipman (1997)- straightjacket, Closed Qs distort meanings