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With reference to emperical evidence, outline and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of participant obserservation as a research method
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With reference to emperical evidence, outline and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of participant obserservation as a research method. This essay will examine how participant observation is used as a research method. In the main body of this essay, this idea will be addressed by pointing out advantages and disadvantages of participant observation. I will give examples to support my argument. Participant observation is the main research method favoured by interpetitivists. It involves the researcher participating in a social group to observe and experience the world as a participant while still observing the group for future analasys of their behaviour from the researchers point of view. The researcher must decide how he will approach the group he wishes to join. He may decide to become an 'overt' participant observer, in which the researcher will join the group as a participant and does not hide the fact that he is observing, or he...
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