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Experiments - Coggle Diagram
Experiments
COMPARATIVE METHOD
'though experiment' that involves identifying two groups that are the same expect from one characteristic eg religion.
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Avoids artificialness, can study past events and has no ethical issues.
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LAB EXPERIMENTS
Positivists argue theres a measurable objective social life out there. Scientific Approach, Quantitative data. Cause-and-effect statements. Experiments = reliable.
Interpretivists - experiments don't translate easily to the study of social behaviour & produce low validity data.
ISSUES
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Ethical issues - conceal aims to avoid Hawthorne - deception means no informed consent. // Psychological and emotional effects.
Limited applications - only small-scale interaction, impossible to study past events or long events.
Free will - Interpretivists = we are different to what science studies because we have a conciousness and free will.
FIELD EXPERIMENTS
Take place in real world, Participants are usually unaware, obtains control & avoids artificialness
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DISADVANTAGES
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limited application - not many situations can be adapted to be a field experiment. Can only measure what people do not why they do it.
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