Week Six

To gather all the relevant information i need for my report my method will be to use a qualitative approach rather then the quantative one; it would be impossible to try to collect data on the dangers of mobile phones and their effect on such topics, as the manpower, resources and time available are just unavailable. Books, journals and the internet will be used to collect all the research data and sources needed to back up the arguments and statements that will be written in the report. Some statistics were found, recent ones, and these will help link the dangers of mobile phones with driving, so these will be used too.

Some academics have problems with secondary sources of information being used as primary soruces in academic papers, so i would like to quote Glaser and Strauss two of the leaders in the area of research methodology by stating 'Some sociologists undoubtedly have never seriously considered the library as a source of real data for their work. Others distrust the competencies in discovering and working with library materials as primary data... These materials are as potentially valuable for generating theory as our observations and interviews'. Glaser, B. G. and Strauss, A. L. 1967. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research, Hawthorn, New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Print this post