SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnography, Participant Observation, Informed Consent

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Fiona Kay

Document Summary

Any qualitative research (not quantitative doesn"t involve numbers) Immersing oneself into a research go out and observe. Defining ethnography: a form of field method, richer specification: naturalism. Live as a member of society not as a researcher: heavy focus on culture and meaning. How close is the researcher to the data. Interviewing prostitutes asking questions about daily behaviour doesn"t become apart of the field. More proximate to participants than surveys and questionnaires: presentation of self. Rich details of data: volume of cases. Generabilizity can be compromised because field cases contains small groups and might not represent the larger population: building a rapport. Researcher develops a rapport strong affection for researcher (absolutely essential) Gain trust, confidence, and acceptance of members. Include fear, paranoia, resistance to outsiders: nature of study. Rich and new data: theory and methods. Grounded theory (barney glasser and anselm strauss) Gain data on observation and then develop concepts.