Week 8

Question 1

Bernard’s (2006) Five Reasons describe why ______ is important

Answer 1

PARTICPANT
OBSERVATION

Question 2

Bernard’s (2006) Five Reasons

Answer 2

1. Opening up the areas of inquiry to collect a wider range of data.
2. Reducing the problem of reactivity
3. Enabling researchers to know what questions to ask
4. Gaining intuitive understanding of the meaning of your data.
5. Addressing problems that are unavailable with other data collection techniques

Question 3

Potential Drawbacks of Participant observation

Answer 3

• Potentially and unpredictably time consuming.
• Highly ‘practitioner-
  sensitive’

-Sometimes difficult to generalize from