questionnaires

Question 1

what is an open question?

Answer 1

questions which require a detailed answer, more than a yes or no response

Question 2

what is a closed question?

Answer 2

questions which require a short response answer like yes or no

Question 3

what is a leading question?

Answer 3

a question that prompts or encourages the desired answer.

Question 4

what is right answerism?

Answer 4

where the respondants provides the answer they thing the researcher wants to hear and not what they actually think

Question 5

what is triangulation?

Answer 5

the use of 2 or more research methods

Question 6

what is a pilot study?

Answer 6

a sacled down test to identify an errors in a research

Question 7

what is response rate?

Answer 7

the porportion of those who are sent a questionaire that complete and return it

Question 8

would positivist or interprtivist prefer questionnaires and why?

Answer 8

positivist as it provides mostly quantitative data

Question 9

name the 3 stregths of questionnaires?

Answer 9

representativeness, reliable and wide spread distribution

Question 10

what kind of factor is representativeness and how do questionnaires achieve this?

Answer 10

theoretical, because its more likely to be distributed to a large group so more participants can be assessed which allows a researcher to generalise with the wider population

Question 11

name an example of where a questionnaire has been representative?and name an A03

Answer 11

census sent to every household by the government to illustrate what society is like, however not every household will do it, and those temporary accomodation also dont get one and also the homeless

Question 12

what factor is reliable? and how do questionnaires achieve this?

Answer 12

theoretical, because having a pre set of questions means that it can be repeated in a standardised manner

Question 13

name an example of where a questionnaire has been reliable?

Answer 13

sew asked 50,000 people about wether they have been a victim of crime in the last 12 months and this was repeated in the same manner but in different locations

Question 14

what factor is wider distribution? and how do questionnares achieve this?

Answer 14

practical, as its easy to send to a wide geografical area if needed like using postal questionnaires or the internet

Question 15

name an example of where questionnaires have given wider distribution?

Answer 15

conner and dawson and there study on class differnces they were able to sent it to 14 different high institutions

Question 16

name a practical advantage of questionnares?

Answer 16

posting or sending via email is very quick and has low cost

Question 17

name an ethical strength to questionnaires?

Answer 17

participants allows have the right to withdraw as they will always have the option to stop filling it out

Question 18

name another theoretical strength of questionnares?

Answer 18

objectivity/detactached as there is no personal invovlement of the sociologist

Question 19

name the 3 limitations of questionnares?

Answer 19

low validity, inflexibility and a low response rate

Question 20

what factor is validity? and how does questionnares limit this?

Answer 20

theoretical, pre-set questions lead to a social construction and a narrow reality as youve selected the answers provided

Question 21

name an example of where questionnares caused low validity?

Answer 21

sullivan and there study on cultural capital her questions where narrow and pre determined by bourdieus prevoius study

Question 22

how does a questionnare cause inflexibility?and what kind of factor is this?

Answer 22

because the researcher pre determines the questions which does not allow the participants from addressing other concerns

Question 23

name an example of where a questionnaire has being inflexible?

Answer 23

census preset questions by the government which does not give the public a voice-practical

Question 24

how could a questionnare potential have a low response rate?and what kind of factor is this?

Answer 24

because on average questionnares only have a 50% response rate.practical

Question 25

name an example of where a questionnare has had a low response rate?

Answer 25

hite report, send out 100,000 postal questionnares and only got 5% back