the basics

Question 1

what are the 5 practical considerations

Answer 1

1. time and money: cheap and quick-quantitative more expensive, more time: qualitative
2. requirements of funding bodies: funded by either gov, unis or businesses, choice of topic or method may be influenced by who funds research
3. personal skills and characteristics: DA victim and a middle aged man
4. subject matter: some topics/groups may be impossible to access
5. research opportunity: the opportunity to conduct research may be out of the blue, therefore cannot have structure/planned research methods

Question 2

what are the 5 ethical considerstaions

Answer 2

1. informed consent
2. confidentiality and privacy: keeping identities of participants private
3. effects on participants: sensitive questions causing mental anguish
4. vulnerable groups
5. covert research: BSA, covert should only be used if its impossible to use any other methods

Question 3

what are three theoretical considerations

Answer 3

1. validity: getting a true picture
2. reliability: if your research can be repeated
3. representativeness: if its used on a large enough sample it can be representative of your population

Question 4

what is triangulation

Answer 4

process of using both positivistic and interpretivist methods in order to cover all angles of a topic