SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Androcentrism, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Nels Anderson
29 Apr 2016
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Week 8 - qualitative methods ii - ethnography & Ethnography aims to gather information on human societies and cultures. The essential core of ethnography is to understand another way of life from a person"s point of view (spradley, 1979) Ethnography is a research strategy based on observing people in their natural environment instead of in a formal research setting. Goetz and lecompte (1984) argue that ethnographies are analytic descriptions or reconstructions of cultural scenes or groups . Margaret mead (1926) - the island of samoa. Ruth benedict (1946) - the nation of japan. These early ethnographies were later criticized: foreigners arrived to study the other ( finding a simple or primitive field site is. 2. the next best thing to a scientific experiment. - mead) Intentionally or unintentionally supported existing systems and structures of power: this tendency to essentialize cultural groups, power in the dissemination of knowledge production (research, little knowledge of language/culture.
