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Using Focus Groups in Research
Description
Focus Groups are often under-used as a valuable tool for research. This practical and extremely well-written guide offers advice on: * planning and organising focus groups * what types of questions to use* the limitations and advantages of using these groups as research methods* collecting the data at group sessions* how to analyse the data produced
Table of Contents
1. Introducing focus groups-
Preliminaries and definitions
-What kind of focus group
-Focus groups as a qualitative research method in the social sciences
2. Benefits and limitations of focus group methodology
-When to use groups and for what kinds of questions
-Limitations of focus groups
3. Planning and organising focus groups
-Selecting the participants
-The role of the moderator
-Selecting a location and other praticalities of setting up focus groups
-Ethical issues
4. Developing and asking questions
-The topic guide of questioning route
-Types of questions-Kinds of questions
5. Conducting focus groups
-Before the focus group session
-Stages of the focus group session
-After the session
6. Analysing focus group data
Further reading
References
Preliminaries and definitions
-What kind of focus group
-Focus groups as a qualitative research method in the social sciences
2. Benefits and limitations of focus group methodology
-When to use groups and for what kinds of questions
-Limitations of focus groups
3. Planning and organising focus groups
-Selecting the participants
-The role of the moderator
-Selecting a location and other praticalities of setting up focus groups
-Ethical issues
4. Developing and asking questions
-The topic guide of questioning route
-Types of questions-Kinds of questions
5. Conducting focus groups
-Before the focus group session
-Stages of the focus group session
-After the session
6. Analysing focus group data
Further reading
References
Product details
| Published | 18 Mar 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 104 |
| ISBN | 9789394701588 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic India |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Series | Continuum Research Methods |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd |
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