SOC204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fieldnotes, Speed Dating, Multiple Dispatch
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Seek an in-depth understanding of how people make sense of their social worlds. Include observation and/or participant observation; sometimes known as hanging out. Use fieldnotes to craft the thick description - geetz. Social desirability: people acting in accordance with perceived expectations rather than just like themselves. Unlikely for people to be unauthentic because you are observing them for such a long time. Ethnographic claims/attemps to aim for subjective accounts of experience (i. e. to suspend notions of scientific objectivity) Going native contact between researchers and native communities; concern that researchers over identify with research community. Context specific; i. e. bar, speed dating, reality tv. Random population; i. e. stayed in an open public, public space. Ethnographic work is often about difficult to access or contextually-bounded groups. Concerns regarding safety/respect for both research subjects and researchers. Asked to participate in activity that infringed on or violates moral/legal compass: gaining access. Research bargain= tradeoffs you make as a researcher to gain access to the data.
