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To a good many marketing people, focus groups have become identified with qualitative research. When they say, Well do some qual, they mean theyll do some focus groups. They expect these focus groups to tell them something. Most often the focus groups tell them nothing very useful. Focus groups, at their inception, were never intended to provide answers. They were designed by sociologists and are most closely associated with Robert Merton, a...more
This paper examines the defects of focus group research and suggests that a better alternative to focus group research is web-based surveys using the well-established Delphi Technique.Qualitative research is an important part of marketing research today. When marketing managers say well do some qual they almost always mean focus groups. Other types of qualitative research are rarely if ever considered.The technique of data gathering known as focus group interviewing is associated with sociologist Robert Mertons work in World War II. Merton was one of the great pioneering sociologists of the last century, an intellectual giant associated with the development of such central sociological ideas as anomie, deviance, functionalism and role model.Like all new research methods focus groups were developed to improve data gathering in social science research. In 1931 as Rice said: "a defect of the interview for the purposes of fact-finding in scientific research, then, is that the questioner takes the lead...data obtained from an interview are likely to embody the preconceived ideas of the interviewer as the attitude of the subject interviewed" (Rice, 1931, p.561 cited in Kreuger, 1988,...more
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