Research methods- Key figures

Question 1

Helen Haste (2005)

Answer 1

• Random sample
• Self completion questionnaire
• studied young peoples use of mobile phones
• Found that relationships with parent became more trusting due to ease of communication

Question 2

Dobash and Dobash (2004)

Answer 2

• Questionnaire
• open questions
• self-complete on the computer
• uncover the hidden issues of domestic violence on women
• Avoidance of face to face for privacy issues
• Offer support to participants (ethical)

Question 3

Leon Tikly et at (2006)

Answer 3

• Postal questionnaires
• followed up by semi-structured interviews
• sent to schools in Bristol to find out the effects of the government program aimed to improve the attainment of Afro- Caribbean pupils
• Found that schools which valued ethnic diversity had less behavioral problems and higher attainment

Question 4

Barnard’s Charity (2013)

Answer 4

• Focus groups
• Investigate the issues facing children reaching the age at which they must leave their care homes.
• Information had depth, validity but not reliability

Question 5

Laud Humphreys (1970)

Answer 5

• Overt observation
• non ethical
• studies of ‘tea-grooming’ (casual sex between homosexual men in public toilets in USA)
• Later tracked down and interviewed the participants using deception without informed consent, so ethically highly dubious

Question 6

Health survey for England since 1994

Answer 6

• survey
• quantitative
• Look through official statistics for trends in illness/ risk factors/ GP visits etc.
• Large sample size makes it representative and generalisable

Question 7

Child of our time 7Up

Answer 7

• BBC Longitudinal case studies
• overt observational
• following the lives of a small number of children in great detail from birth to adulthood
• Children tend to drop out as soon as they are old enough to make their own decisions

Question 8

The Making of a Moonie- barker, 1984

Answer 8

• Questionnaires
• Observations
• Interviews
• Triangular
• Longitudinal
• find out why people choose to belong to a religious group

Question 9

Breeze 2013

Answer 9

• triangulation or method pluralism
• secondary data, interviews and observations
• studies the workers and managers attitudes to fundraising for a charity