SOCI 3P02 Lecture Notes - Clifford Geertz, Thick Description, Juvenile Delinquency
1 Apr 2013
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Test - 40 mc 20tf *everything up and including to today"s+ Interviews -> should be done in the next 14 days. Alternate terms: ethnography, participant observation, fieldwork, field studies, naturalistic inquiry. Ethnography: the activity of describing peoples and cultures . The act or the method of data collection as participant observation and then refer to the written account as the ethnography: method referred to as participant observation, write up referred to the ethnography. Interviewing, focus groups, oral histories, collecting archival documents, participant observation. Emphasis is on understanding the culture of a group. Culture refers to the ways of life of a group of people: pattern of living, our possessions. Everything that is owned, bought or sold, consumed, saved, traded or given away. Our rules for how we behave toward the objects: reflected in our ideas, beliefs, knowledge, ritual practices, and language, social networks -> who knows who & what the relationships are, social and political institutions.
