Participant vs non-participant observation in research
Observation is the action or process of observing something or someone carefully in order to gain information about them. Observation in research can be classified as participant and non participant. In participant observation, the observer or researcher becomes more or less member of the group under observation and shares the situation as visiting stranger, an attentive listener, an eager learner or as a complete participant observer registering, recording and interpreting the behavior of the group. In other hand in the non participant observation the observer or researcher observe through one way screen and hidden microphone. The researcher remain at distance and look, register and record what is going on. he keeps his observation as inconspicuous as possible. The purpose of non participant observation is to observe the behaviour in the natural setting. The subject will not shift his behavior or the respondent will not be conscious that someone is observing his behavior. The a...