SOC387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kaiser Permanente, Photovoice
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They must reflect the perceptions of all of the stakeholders in the study population: can create focus groups, informal meetings, and community meetings, give full access to reports. Action research is often supported by theory. Action research is different than traditional research: researcher as partner. Goals: linking research to theory, develop social critique, reveal hidden inequalities to study participants, empowering. This refers to giving the study population cameras to gain access to their social world from their point of view. Researchers give study participants cameras and they take photos of certain aspects of their lives that relate various things such as: health, crime, environmental safety. The goals of photovoice: empowerment, dialogue and awareness, claiming a voice, example: photovoice and kaiser permanente community and health. Initiatives: wanted to capture the barriers of healthy eating and living in the community.
