METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
REDESIGNING RESEARCH TOOLS INTERVIEWS
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The absence of a pre-set structure means interviewees can discuss what is important to them.
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Open-ended questions allow interviewee to express themselves in their own words, producing qualitative data that gives us an insight in to their meanings.
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the small sample size involved means that it doesn’t take very long for sociologists to fine their results.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Surveys are unlikely to be completed honestly, and offer little scope for respondents to reveal unexpected truths about themselves. For this reason interpretivists prefer qualitative methods. Unstructured interviews and participant observation allow more genuine two-way interaction to take place.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sociologists taking a more interpretivist approach would be likely to rely more on the unstructured interview or a partly-structured interview. These two forms of interview simply mean that there are few or no fixed questions which have to be asked or asked to all interviewees.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unstructured interviews allow researchers to focus the respondents’ talk on a particular topic of interest, and may allow researchers the opportunity to test out his or her preliminary understanding, while still allowing for ample opportunity for new ways of seeing and understanding to develop.