Practical issues

• What are some practical issues of research

  .Money and Funding

  .Time

  .Choice of topic

  .Safety

  .Characteristics of researcher

  .Group being studied
• What are practical issues

  .issues which will impact the type o research ,that is carried out by the researcher
• Describe the practical issues of money and funding in research

  .experiment requires funding , charitable foundations , government organisations

  .research costs money,sociologists may have a grant to pay for their research and choose methods which match the money they have available
• Describe the practical issue of money and funding in research

  .experiments require funding, charitable foundations,government organisations and business organisations

  .research costs money,sociologists may have a grant to pay for their research and choose methods which match the money they have available
• Describe the practical issue of time in research

  .observations would take longer times and a researchers time is limited.This might involve deciding to conduct a number of interviews rather than a lengthy participant observation study
• Describe the practical issue the group that is being studied in research

  .some methods are more suitable than others for studying certain groups of people eg a teenage gang who are hostile to outsiders - they cannot do interviews or questionnaires but joining in activities and gaining their trust can allow them to do things like participant observation by observing their behaviours and obtain information
• Describe the practical issue of the characteristics of the researcher

  .researchers must have a certain age,gender,ethnicity and class which must be considered when selecting the methods for different types of research ,eg a study on prostitution,the clients felt more comfortable and able to take freely with woman rather than a man.
• Describe the practical issue of safety in research

  .researchers must be aware of possible emotional or physical dangers to selves

  .Haralambos research on music based on observation -stressful and dangerous but gave good data
• What are the practical issue of the Choice of topic in research

  .Location

  .Time Consuming

  .Accessibility

  .Cost

  .Language

  .Gate keepers