CRCJ 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tacit Knowledge
7 Nov 2017
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In depth study of group, culture, society that entails field work. Borrows from naturalism: us doing things in natural settings and others observing it. Exploring a morphis social experience: almost any social experience can be an ethnographic study. (ie, children playing, something we should know more about, let"s study them) Ethnographer is interested in the experiences of the people from within that culture that is being studied. Making meaning about whole bunch of different things from those experiences. Ie, how children understand freedom, play, fear, how we as a society understand those things. Ethnographers do not enter into situations for short amounts of time, but rather immersed for long periods of time. Typically live in communities or spend majority of time so they can get an intimate understanding of the community which they are studying. There to develop relationships, to really speak to complexity of the social, spatially, economic, and emotional realities of that setting.
