Use of technology in the labour
A focus on office employees in the University of Iceland
Participation Observation
Name of the teachers: Name of the student:
Ásta Jóhannsdóttir Muhammed Emin Kizilkaya and Ingólfur Vilhjálmur Gíslason KT: 220194-4349
The qualitative research methods play an important role in the aspect of social science. It is a method that opens up a hidden world of many elements, each of which is unique and vary from one another. The participant observation method in the qualitative work gives an opportunity for the respondent to freely express subjectivity based on the questions and topics that are presented by the observant. This method gives the researcher many different and unique differentiated ideas and meanings from the respondent(s), that can be discussed and considered by the observant. However, one must be careful when the participant observation is used as bias can occur easily. I this following assignment the advantages and disadvantages of using the participant observation will be considered and what kind of ethical considerations that have to be taken during the research. This assignment draws a discussion about whether (and why)
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Participant observation can, however, be time consuming depending on the study area that is chosen and planned by the researcher. If the researcher does not have that much time available, the observer can, before beginning with the qualitative work, create few crucial questions of the research in order to save time (Hennink o.fl, 2011, bls