SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Participant Observation, Internal Consistency, Selective Perception
9 Feb 2018
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Ethnography is, by definition, a descriptive science, and the emphasis should always be on its practical accomplishments - the observation and description of the behaviour of a group of people to understand their culture. In a setting or field site where a group of people share common reality. Assumption of unrestricted access but people in the room may recognize strangers and thus not say everything they are feeling; self-censorships. Create a filing system to organize field notes for analysis. Background files (from literature review, and documentation of topic"s history) Bibliographical files of all references related to study. Biographical files on key subjects in the study. Analytical files to categorize what you are observing. Cross-reference files may be useful to retrieve data. Draw up a table that compares the tactics of the two groups. Could findings be applied to other phenomena, situations. No more to learn or find closure. Can the research be replicated with the same results.
