WEAKNESSES

• WEAKNESSES OF SCHAFFER AND EMERON'S STUDY?

  generalisability
• WHERE WERE THE BABIES IN THE STUDY FROM?

  working class families in Glasgow
• WHAT DOES THE SAMPLE SUGGEST ABOUT SCHAFFER AND EMERON'S STUDY?

  may not be representative of behaviour in middle class families
• IF SCHAFFER AND EMERON'S STUDY IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES WHAT DOES IT SUGGEST?

  not generalisable to other social groups as parenting styles vary between socioeconomic classes
• WHAT DOES THE LACK OF GENERALISABILITY SUGGEST ABOUT SCHAFFER AND EMERON'S RESEARCH?

  suffers from cultural relativism
• HOW DOES SCHAFFER AND EMERON'S STUDY SUFFER FROM CULTURAL RELATIVISM?

  babies were from western country with an individualistic society
• WHAT DOES THE CULTURAL RELATIVISM SUGGEST ABOUT THE STUDY?

  in collectivist societies with different parenting styles the research lacks generalisability