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The researcher must then decide just how the research materials are to be collected. A range of different research methods exists, and which one is chosen depends on the overall objective of the study, as well as on which aspects of behaviour are to be analysed. For some purposes, a social survey (in which questionnaires are normally used) might be suitable, especially where we need to gather a large quantity of data. In other circumstances, if we want to study small social groups in great detail, interviews or an observational study might be more appropriate. We shall learn more about these and other research methods later in this chapter.