CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Ethnography, Ethnography, Participant Observation
19 Nov 2016
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Places where individuals go about their daily lives. Rather than a place set up by the researcher. Aims to get a holistic understanding of how individuals in different cultures and subcultures make sense of their lived reality. Written accounts of everyday experiences in the field. Requires researcher to live in/make frequent visits to the setting he/she is studying. Observing as well as participating in the activities of those researched. Notes consisting of key words/phrases to help remember important events/ideas. Elaborate on notes when researcher leaves the field. Concept depends on type of research project one pursues. Eg. studying a local bar, the bar is the field. Ethnographers often work from this theoretical tradition. Based on interpretation of interactions and the social meaning that people assign to their interactions. Believes that social meaning is created during interaction and people"s interpretations of interactions. Implication is that diff social actors may understand social reality differently. Involves building relationships between the researcher and participants.
