SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cluster Sampling, Sampling Frame, Panel Data

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Socb05 lecture 12 august 1st 2013. The researcher does not disturb or effect the social environment or peoples social behaviour in which they are studying. Unobtrusive methods include: written or audio-visual records. Movies, songs, etc: material culture (physical objects, settings and traces, simple observations, hardware techniques. Does not include: interviews, questionnaires, manipulative experiments. Advantages: studying actual behaviour rather than reported behaviour. There is no doubt about the reality of the events: safety, high reliability, non-disruptive and non-reactive, accessible. Can be found online or in libraries: cheap, longitudinal data source. Disadvantages: distortion of original record, de-contextualizing, could be other variables that you cannot see. Statistics may not measure exacty what we want them to or what they say they do: problems of reliability. Depends on the quality of the research. Physical trace measures: the remnants, fragments and products of people (or animals) past behaviour, most often obtained indirectly, three types:

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