LABR 3P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Focus Group, Ethnography, Body Language

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 3P91
• Professor: Kendra Coulter

Document Summary

In most, not all, qualitative methods involve talking to people. Will need ethical clearance to communicate with research subjects. True if you want to conduct surveys too. Examines and assesses research proposals to protects the research subjects and the university. Don"t want researchers to take advantage of research subjects or cause undo harm. Things that people said over the course of the interview. Fixed set of questions that are going to be asked. Can"t deviate from questions of the research subject says something different. Allows flexibility but also keeps researcher and research subject on topic. Can you tell me more , how did that make you feel . On occasion, it can be longer because the research subject keeps going. Might do one interview or a follow up interview. Uncover more questions after looking back at interviews. When a study expands over several years. Start with one or two probing questions and then let the research subject talk.