Sociology / Unit 2 Soc 0165 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Field Research
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The idea
Field research studies people in their natural setting rather than a laboratory or a questionnaire, recording behavior where it actually happens.
In practice
A researcher studying restaurant work learns more from a month of shifts than from a survey of cooks.
Where people slip
The setting cannot be controlled, so the researcher trades control for realism.
Your place on the trail
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