SOCI 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Participant Observation, Grounded Theory, Hunger Strike
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This method is usually comprehensive studying the topic as completely as possible. More appropriate to study things i. e attitudes and behavior whose context needs to be known in order to understand the issue as oppose to things with artificial settings and surveys. 2 or more people meeting and interacting in immediate proximity with one another. Behavior appropriate to pairs or sets of roles. How large numbers of people adjust to life in groups such as ruling class or urban class. [methodological terms in qualitative field research] readers will be overwhelmed with terminological jungle. Related to history, disciplinary association and research orientation. Both are rooted to the concept of naturalism: observing events in a natural situation. May be referred to as naturalistic observations and holistic understandings of cultures or subcultures. Ethnography is associated with anthropology / participant observation with sociology. Main purpose: to focus on the specification of the case, providing rich, detailed data (sounds like idiosyncratic)
