HLTH 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pierre Bourdieu, Thick Description, Emic And Etic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 346

Document Summary

Thinking through qualitative research: whatever qualitative approach a researcher seeks to employ for her/his/their research project, there are always issues at play that can affect how the research is designed, conducted and, ultimately represented . Such distortions must be treated as significant and necessary, and therefore acknowledged these needs to be flushed out from the very beginning, your already influenced and its productive to know that they are there and work through them. Bourdieu (sociologist) called "the scholastic point of view" In many ways the clear cut "containers" we use as labels for social process and phenomena often times trick us into thinking that the social world reflects these containers or labels in their discreteness. Examples: power, race, class (aka ses, gender, we sometimes foist or project a certain find of neatness onto the social world that in many cases just isn"t there. Epistemological --> theory of knowledge and its validity and application.