Compare and contrast focus group interviewing and unobtrusive measures
What will be an ideal response?
Unobtrusive measures do not require intrusion into the lives of participants by investigators. Focus group interviews are intentional and invasive. Focus group interviews involve locating some population from which to select participants, contacting them and convincing them to participate, and then finally holding the focus group session. With unobtrusive data strategies, no subjects need be involved during the course of research. In unobtrusive research, there is no interaction between subjects or between subject and investigator. They are passive rather than dynamic, and historical rather than current. Information is created at one time, and identified as data at some later time. The two techniques could be combined through use of group sessions and diary research to create a group diary. The group diary uses an unobtrusive technique and adds interaction to synergistically create convergence of ideas and experiences. Group discussions reveal biographical experiences that are influenced by the culture's affects on members' self-perceptions and understanding about social roles, social institutions, and social structures. Unobtrusive measures are good at uncovering surface-level life structures. Focus group interactional discussions are good at uncovering deep life structural elements. Both methods are fairly low cost. Combining the two allows triangulation to assess surface and deep levels of a participant's life.
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