SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnography, Psych
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Gives enough freedom for interviewer/interviewee to explore more areas. Pull out themes from quite dense pages of results. Allows researchers to obtain detailed experiences, perspectives, cultural meanings, and values. Often used in qualitative research: more exploratory. Habits of the heart : good book to read for qualitative research. Expressive individualism: what guides moral life is individual happiness. Researchers immerse themselves into the lives of their study. Descriptive notes that are used as evidence. Insider view of what minimum wage in america is like. Capturing the everyday practices of parenting and interactions with authority. Doctor and teacher interactions in middle class families vs working class families. Middle class are more assertive, especially with authority figures. Common quantitative method that uses questionnaires and structured interviews to collect information about a population. Allows the collection of large amounts of data for statistical analysis and generalization. Survey research often uses samples and generalizes a large population.
