CHYS 2P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thick Description, Argot, Ethnography
17 Feb 2017
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Ethnography is the study of a culture. A method of fieldwork: interviewing, po, document collecting, filming, recording. The way that we give and receive information. The way we dress, the cars we drive, the music we like. Unspoken way of behaving: putting cutlery on plate at a restaurant signals to your server that you are done eating. All people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode meanings symbolically (language) Study of variation among social statuses, roles, groups, institutions and relations among them. Manifest content one that is surface and apparent. Explains behaviour with as much detail as possible. Human actions can mean many different things. Becoming familiar with the people being studied. Narrative accounts of what goes on in the lives of study subjects. Writing notes when researching in the field. Cryptic jottings: brief statements, unusual terms, taken in the field. Detailed descriptions: include texture, sensation, colour and minutiae. Subjects photograph certain aspects of their lives.
