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METHODS - sociology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - +practical not time consuming and cheap, representative, easily quantifiable, reliable
      - -, lack of validity people may lie lack of depth
  - - - +informality allows relationship to be built, interviewer not restricted to one set of questions, more validity
      - -unrepresentitive small research samples, unreliable not replicable due to open questions, difficult to compare answers
- - - - +Valid written for personal reasons, pracitcal cheap and non time consuming, very good for social interpretations
      - -some groups unlkely to use personal documents so left unrepresented, personal bias present
    - - +allow for comparisons over time, useful when assessing outcomes of social pollicies
      - -unrepresentitive, validitiy questioned depending on who wrote them, autheticity open to question
- - - - +Valid observed in natural setting, data generated is very rich
      - Unreliable, unrepresentitive, not valid bc hawthorne effect, practical and ethical issues
    - - +valid limit researcher going native
      - -not reliable or representitive
    - - +less ethical issues as know they are being observed, more reliability than covert, can openly take notes, can use interview methods as well
      - -time consuming, lacks validity hawthorne effect, less reliable, not always representitive
    - - +lack of hawthorne effect, research first hand so more valid, more depth found
      - -ethical issues immoral to decieve people, has to gain trust, time consuming, chance of going native
- - - - Pupils, teachers, parents, classrooms, schools
    - - Gender/ethnicity/class differences in attainment, parents attitudes towards school, completion of homework, labelling in classrooms