PSCI 2701 Study Guide - Face Validity, Content Analysis, Nomothetic

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2701
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Participant or non-participant: participant become full members of the group, non participant do not become a member of the group ask and get permission to. Overt or covert: overt know they are being observed, covert, researcher is hidden and does not reveal their intentions. Structured or unstructured: structured systematically looking for something and every time one sees it is recorded, unstructured everything is considered relevant later on one can distinguish what is important or unimportant. Primary goal: what the activities mean to the people engaged in them, mental institutions admitted, gets to get information, tells of what goes down from and insider view. May not be able to have access to all information can"t go nosing around etc: may have better luck with a researcher status. Pretended to want to be like them, depends . Participating fully with the group but they also know that you are doing research.