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Unobtrusive research methods include non-reactive behavioural observation, the historical examination of pre-existing archives such as statistics or records, the study of physical traces, and the critical analysis of cultural content. Methven O'Brien (eds.), Research Methods in Human Rights ... The chapter proceeds as follows.
- Unobtrusive methods
- Principles of research design
- Hypothetico–deductive design
- The ethnographic–inductive design
- Rationale and problems
- Ethics and research ownership
In 1966, Eugene Webb, Donald Campbell, Richard Schwartz and Lee Sechrest published a book entitled Unobtrusive Measures: Non-Reac-tive Research in the Social Sciences. A witty and clever book, it introduced readers to the study of physical traces, archival work, simple observation and the use of hardware. ‘Chapter nine’ con-tained only Cardinal New...
PRINCIPLES OF RESEARCH DESIGN Most books or articles on research design begin with abstract principles and end in one of two ways: either the advice concludes with an example or, alternatively, with a short discussion of how research reports should be presented. The abstract principles intro-duce difficult ideas such as ‘conceptual definitions’, ‘p...
The hypothetico–deductive design is so called because it tests hypotheses (hypothetico) and it does this by testing a general theory on a particular sample of cases. It moves, therefore, from the general idea/theory/hypotheses to the particular (deductive) sample of a study. The first section of this kind of research report is the literature review...
The ethnographic–inductive design is so called because it has often been favoured by anthropologists in their fieldwork. Anthropologists develop a picture of society through a multitude or combination of methods. These primarily include observations of one sort or another but also include some interviews, the use of informants, and the study of phy...
As I mentioned earlier the main influences behind the hypothetico– deductive design are the quantitative approaches to the social sciences. These approaches have had a number of philosophical influences which were important in their developing and justifying this approach. Quantitative researchers believe that their research designs are scientific....
Many people write alone. They design a study, collect experiences or data, go into a room somewhere and write all about it. Many theses are written this way. But beyond the writing of the solitary worker, many others work collaboratively in matters of design, data collection and analysis, and finally jointly write the report or publications which s...
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What are the three types of unobtrusive research? Content analysis. In content analysis, researchers examine a class of social artifacts, typically written documents. Analysis of existing statistics. Many governmental and other agencies collect official or quasi-official statistics.
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Define unobtrusive measures, and discuss their use in research, providing examples. Describe the process of content analysis, and give one example. Define both historical research methods and comparative research methods, and give an example of each. Explain the process of event-structure analysis.
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Unobtrusive methods in social research are an interesting aspect of the broader qualitative procedures in social science research which seek answers to questions by examining in non – intrusive manner various social settings and the individuals who inhabit these settings.
Unobtrusive research1 refers to methods of collecting data that don’t interfere with the subjects under study (because these methods are not obtrusive). Both qualitative and quantitative researchers use unobtrusive research methods.
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In sociology, one commonly finds a token lecture, or book chapter in a methods text, devoted to methods other than surveys or perhaps observations. This chapter or single lecture is usually entitled ‘unobtrusive measures’ or ‘methods’. Sometimes ‘non-reac-tive measures’ is the favoured title.
