I am carrying out a research project in which I am conducting focus groups with older men and women to study the musical stereotypes learned in traditional Spanish oral music groups, but I am faced with generational and gender barriers. How do you think the dynamics of this type of tool could be approached in a different way? For example, launching them and having them start talking, or approaching them by thematic blocks and with structured questions?
DEI helps focus groups with communication barriers:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380427514_Kalergi_and_Hart-Cellerand_Memetics_White_Antifragility
I general, it helps to start focus groups with easy to answer questions that ask about the participants' personal experiences. From there you can move into your own, researcher-oriented topics.
Getting them talking in an informal environment is definitely the way to go.
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