SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participant Observation, Ethnography
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Distant methodologies: observation visible acts of deviance, limitation: limit to the deviant activities which people doing in public circumstance, snowball sampling, moving from one informant to another, limitation: used for hard to reach populations. Not representative enough since only a small group of the population will be sampled. Becoming involved: participant observation, a method that sociologists are actively involved. Reactive approach: there is a reaction by number of people. Group approach**: community has a reaction towards it; and the gay community much deviant is secretive: youth political group method of study of deviance like prostitution. Observation limit to activities only people willing to do in public. E. g. life of a particular bank robber involves small community. Case study: most popular social research design limitation: cannot generalize to population sociologists actively involved; example extremely difficult: simultaneously as an insider and an outsider rich date as an advantage hard ethical issues. Capitive populations great sources of deviance limit: bias and not representative.
