A student is designing a fieldwork investigation to evaluate the socio-cultural impacts of rural regeneration in a former mining village. They wish to collect primary qualitative data to understand how residents perceive changes to their community identity.
Which of the following methods should the student select to achieve this objective?
A questionnaire asking residents to rate community cohesion on a closed 111 to 101010 Likert scale.
Systematic sampling of shopfront classifications to calculate a functional diversity index.
Recording unstructured oral histories from long-term residents regarding their lived experiences.
A bipolar environmental quality assessment of public parks, scored on a scale from −3-3−3 to +3+3+3.
