RESEARCH METHODS Flashcards
Lab Experiments
Milgram; Electric shocks to test Authority.
Caused extreme emotional distress.
Lab Experiments - Uni
Zimbardo Stanford Uni.
“Prisoners” phycological abuse from “Guards”. Ended early on the 6th day.
Hawthorne Effect
Mayo
Worker productivity increased when conditions were increased and decreased. Workers wanted to please as they were being watched.
Field Experiment
Rosenhan - Mental Hospital
The patients behaviour didn’t matter it was the label of being Schizophrenic.
Comparative Method
Durkheim.
Study of Suicide to see if social integration was a factor within. Using Catholic and Protestant to compare. Used Official Stats
Connor and Dewson
4000 questionnaires sent out to Uni students. Can make generalisations.
Schofield
Are you a Virgin? Not Yet.
Misunderstanding the question in Questionaire.
Shere Hite
Love, Passion and Emotional Violence.
10,000 questionnaires sent only 4.5% r rate.
Young and Willmott
Interviews. Only 54/987 refused as face to face.
Dobash and Dobash
Unstructed interviews on DV - being able to build rapport.
Labov
Interviews - Black American students were tongue tied and linguistically deprived. With a more relaxed approach the opened up more.
Oakley
Interviews - when researching about motherhood she found it difficult to detach herself as she was also a mother.
Rich
Children wanting to please adult interviewers. Power imbalance can reduce validity.
Griffin
Black Like Me. Participant observation.
Punch
Being a police man in Amsterdam. “Going Native”. If researcher over identifies the participant observation can become Bias.
Vankatesh
Gang Leader for a day. Overt Participation.
Punch, when left.
“We only let you see what we wanted you to see”
Laud Humphreys
Tea Room Trade. Only way to investigate Gay public Sex. “You have to be in the same boat”
Atkinson
S Sources - Looked into Coroners & Suicide and said Suicide was a social construction defined by Coroners beliefs.
Thomas
S Sources - used letters home to look into Migration.
May have lied.
Aries
S Sources - Looking into Childhood, he looked at paintings.
Hitlers Diaries
Later found to be Fake. Lack of Validity.
