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What are the main strengths and limitations when carrying out research in…
What are the main strengths and limitations when carrying out research in schools?
Practical issue
Not understand long questions
Have a limited vocabulary
Be less articulate
Have a shorter attention span
Read body language
Power and Status
Less self confidence
If the interviewee sees a power imbalance they are more likekly to lie
Responses may be less articulate
Reliability and validity
Structured interviews produce more reliable data
Young people are more likely to respond favourably to a less formal style
Di Bentley used a photo of her and her daughter joking around to make students more at ease
Access and response rate
Schools may be reluctant to allow sociologists to conduct interviews during lesson time
Parental permission may be required to interview children
Hierachal institutions may cause problems when seeking to interview teachers or pupils
Group interviews
The free flowing nature of group interviews makes it impossible to standards questions
Pupils are often strongly influenced by peer pressure
Greene and Hogan argued that group interviews were very sensible for younger people