SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participant Observation, Selective Perception, Exit Strategy
7 Mar 2017
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Announcements: question about the two articles with similar ndings. Making sense of an alien world which is like seeing the strange in the familiar and putting aside all your assumptions to view it differently. Detailed data, multi-dimensional which give you different insight and understanding: where: In a setting or eld site where a group of people share a common reality: how: Participant observation hang around", listen, observe and make sense of what is going on by giving a non-threatening presence. Interviews with informants and members you want their information, do not give them your information, less developed skill is the listening skill. Steps of ethnography: this is a process but not a linear oneyou can start at one step and go back and forth, get image. Selecting a site: match site and research question. You start with a topic and determine a vocabulary to go along with it.
