SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Counterculture, Tabula Rasa, Ethnography
3 Mar 2013
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Most common in the field of anthropology. Naturalism: observe people in small social settings over a small or large period of time. No statistics, mathematics field research is face to face social interactions with people in their home environment it"s used when other methods are not practical. Specialized and highly detailed analysis of micro situations (transcripts, conversations, videotape). Outside of academia, we are all ethnomethodologists! (ex. creeping facebook pictures understanding the picture) The field study there are several steps (page 224 in textbook!: begin with general topic (group) and not a specific hypothesis. Go into field with blank slate be a sponge absorb everything you can about that group or setting! Pick something fun and exciting (interesting or passionate): researchers can be very involved or uninvolved in what they study. It"s small scale social research (the field study) You can study a group, subculture, social setting: police department, sports team, bar.
