ANT 2130 Lecture 2: January 21
Document Summary
Qualitative vs. quantitative: ask questions research, quantitative: numbers, statistical measures, qualitative: asking about. Ethics: when going under research, need to know ethics, working with children, always, other vulnerable populations excluding children (elders, disabled persons, people with dementia, mental illnesses where they can consent, some of the key pieces. Monolithic bias: looking at a family with a single structured and they"re all the same, they have different fundamentals, different dynamics, whose involved. Conservative: different approach to families, not going to stretch the boundaries of interpretation and our understanding has been very narrow. Absolutely but until 80"s we weren"t talking about men as caregivers as the nurturing role. Ageist: centered around families when they age (widowhood, divorce, families) very new to this idea still, assume everything happens to this. Microstructural: intimate relationships and first hand relationship, spent less time on families as they interact and wind up with a very narrow family.