What are structured interviews?

A interview which is conducted in the same standardized way

What method has a better response rate? why?

Structured Interviews, people find it hard to decline

What do interpretivists think about questionnaires?

They think that they can't produce valid meanings of actors

What does Oakley say about structured interviews?

Interviewees are passive,objects, mirrors gender divisions

Here is problems of questionnaires according to interpretivists. Which one is the odd one out?

We don't need tounderstand people,data is the most important

What is hypothesis testing ?

A test to see if there's a correlation between 2 variables

What are the two reasons for a questionnaire being representative?

They use sophisticated sample techniques,are large scale

What do positivists base their approach on?

On natural sciences who seek to discover cause and effect

What is the practical strength of questionnaires?

There is little training needed as individuals complete it

Why is reliability important?

To allow a scientists findings to be confirmed or falsified

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Questionnaires and Structured Interviews

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What method is similar to structured interviews, in terms of PET?
Unstructured interviews
Participant Observation
Documents
Questionnaires
2
What are structured interviews?
An interview with the same set of questions,but ask for more
A interview which is conducted in the same standardized way
An informal interview where there is a guided conversation
3
Who favors questionnaires?
Both
Interpretivists
Positivists
4
What method has a better response rate? why?
Questionnaires, People find it easy to post it back
Structured Interviews- people like talking about their life
Questionnaires - people have loads of time on their hands
Structured Interviews, people find it hard to decline
5
What do interpretivists think about questionnaires?
They can produce reliable and valid data
They think that they can produce valid data
They are easy to analyse
They think that they can't produce valid meanings of actors
6
What does Oakley say about structured interviews?
Interviewees are passive,objects, mirrors gender divisions
You can find out sensitive issues in detail
They are great, they get all the information they need
They give a true picture of women's oppressed experiences
7
Here is problems of questionnaires according to interpretivists. Which one is the odd one out?
We don't need tounderstand people,data is the most important
Detachment
They have imposed too much of their ideas in the questions
People don't understand the questions so they lie
8
What is hypothesis testing ?
An experiment
A pilot study
A test to see if there's a correlation between 2 variables
9
What are the two reasons for a questionnaire being representative?
Completed by middle class, they have high response rate
they are large-scale, they are subjective
They are large-scale, they are valid
They use sophisticated sample techniques,are large scale
10
What are the two types of questions in a questionnaire?
Open-ended, closed-ended
closed-ended partially-ended
Open-ended Slightly open-ended
11
What do positivists base their approach on?
On subjective observations and meanings of an individual
On natural sciences who seek to discover cause and effect
12
What is the practical strength of questionnaires?
There is little training needed as individuals complete it
Detachment
Questionnaires are inflexible
The data is superficial
13
Here are some limitations of questionnaires. Which one is the odd one out?
We can never know if recipients received the questionnaire
there is bias as the researcher knows what he wants to find
They have low response rates so you need pricey incentives
They are easily generalized
14
What theorist calls structured interviews "Research as rape"?
Feminists
Functionalists
Postmodernists
New Right
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Why is reliability important?
To allow a scientists findings to be confirmed or falsified
To see if their experiment was cool

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