POLI 2610 Lecture Notes - Focus Group
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Field research tryi to observe things in their natural social and political context. Difficult kind of research to observe well and in your discipline. If we are in a small group and being observed it is not a normal kind of setting. A political convention 4000 people aren"t going to all change their behavior, but some might. Some can be trained and developed with research. Don"t go in with a hypothesis qualitative research go in with a question not a hypothesis. The smart rats all performed better than the dumb rats. The rats were exactly the same: 2) find a site. Make sure they will let you in. Pretend to be one of them ethical issues. The advantage, although you are deceiving them, and they cant give informed consent. But they will likely act much more naturally. Don"t substitute tape recordings it is important to take paper notes.