CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Relate

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 262
• Professor: Daniel Ahadi

Document Summary

Refer to your interviewee as their profession or fake name or gender (?) Transport the reader into your assignment; write down every single thing that you observed, came across, etc: shows you care about readers and feelings and including them. Link your observations to conceptual understanding of culture, class, taste of belonging, so forth. Various aspects of observation link back to these conceptual notions. Ethnography captures meaning behind how cultures do things: atte(cid:373)pts to (cid:272)aptu(cid:396)e (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373) pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)t(cid:859)s poi(cid:374)t of (cid:448)ie(cid:449) Observation in depth, contextual: can locate practices that produce cultural meaning. Positionality helps understand the culture; various identities will help you play significant role in the culture: helps us understand how we insert ourselves into meaning making. Interviewing allows you to answer research question in much more in-depth way: helps us to make sense of observed practices. Move beyond on the surface observation, get more in-depth.