SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Participant Observation
25 Nov 2014
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A= participant b = male job candidate c =female job candidate. B"s academic record is slightly better than cs. Bs academic record is slightly worse than c. Competence (scale) - series of questions on how skilled they are = equated with grades. People aren"t aware they are being studied. Make direct observations of peoples behaviour and recording them in categories - you are directly there and recording ex: people running red lights. Mostly in qualitative data, observer is part of the community they immerse themself in. The researcher doesn"t have detailed interview schedule, taking notes on everything they can, trying to develop story. Listing of all the questions our categories that the interviewer keeps track of. Inter-observer reliability - the scoring they do is the same. Researcher doesn"t design how the data is collected, may be collected for a different purpose. Collected for different purpose the researcher might have. Institute for social research at york u.
