Topic 3 - Questionnaires Flashcards
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Questionnaires
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- A form of social survey
- Can be either closed or open questions
- Favoured by positivists
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Practical strengths of questionnaires
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- Quick, cheap, and efficient
- Easy to quanitify
- Training
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Ethical strengths of questionnaires
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- Anonymity and confidentiality
4
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Theoretical strengths of questionnaires
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- Reliable
- Representativeness
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Connor and Dewson
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- 4000 questionnaires = findings could be generalised
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Practical weaknesses of questionnaires
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- Money
- Inflexibility
- Language
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Ethical weaknesses of questionnaires
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- Sensitive data
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Theoretical weaknesses of questionnaires
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- Right answerism
- Low response rate
- Questionnaires as snapshots
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Schofield
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- Teenager asked “are you a virgin”, and replied “not yet” (language barrier)
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Shere Hite
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- Low response rate
- “Love, passion, and emotional violence”
- 100,000 with a 4.5% response rate
