HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Image Analysis
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Hltb15 lecture 5 notes participant observation. Participant observation involves gathering data through exposure to or involvement in the day-to-day lives or routine activities of people in a particular research setting. Advantages: allows for insight into contexts, relationships and behaviours, richness and depth, can provide information previous unknown to the resaerchers for project design, data collection and interpretation of the dta. Disadvantages: time consuming, documentation relies on memory personal discipline and diligence of research, requires conscious effort objectivity because method is inherently subjective. Observational bia in po research: selective attention. Only paying attention to the most dramatic or interesting aspect of what is seen: selective encoding (cid:862)rushi(cid:374)g to judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) a(cid:374)d fiti(cid:374)g (cid:272)odes that i(cid:374)li(cid:374)e or i(cid:374)for(cid:373)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:455)our (cid:271)eliefs, selective memory. Recalling incident that confirm you beliefs or expectations. I(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:271)e i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)er"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:271)ias (cid:894)like or dislike(cid:895) or parti(cid:272)ular people. How much to disclose about what you are doing.
